Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918
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The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.
—Voltaire, 1736One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805