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, 2004
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H.L. Mencken, 1921‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860