Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995
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Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC