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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCThe celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605I 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, 1879I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCWhat will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883