If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005
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The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCArt is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC