Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533