I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleA first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620