Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898
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All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733