Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847
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Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005