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—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924
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Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986