There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverb
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The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherThe snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbSeek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45