Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008
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Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCIn the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821