People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975
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The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCThe 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, 1965The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992