Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885
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Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865