At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006
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Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844