One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914
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The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820