Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902
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We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCGovernments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCBy the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCI say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864