People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975
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The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbFor, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679