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—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841
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Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCIf there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985