Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991
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In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8