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—Carina Chocano, 2012
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So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCSpies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCHealth in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCIf you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991