The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963