Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
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The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706