A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905
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The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborI always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BC