Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCEverything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbNothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970