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—Richard Brathwaite, 1631
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Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957