Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCAs usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945