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Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

—George Herbert, 1651

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

—Philip Roth, 1969

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1594

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

A functioning police state needs no police.

—William S. Burroughs, 1959

Business is other people’s money.

—Delphine de Girardin, 1852

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

—H.G. Wells, 1920

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

—George Peabody, 1852

Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.

—Thomas Hardy, 1874

It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.

—Margaret Atwood, 2000

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.

—Epictetus, c. 110