Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverb
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Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbThere is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonA great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834