I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999
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The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCA man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCAn ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871