Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811
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Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCSecrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977