A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920
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Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbIt is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverb