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—Mark Twain, 1873
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I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCHe who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbAn ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCThere 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, 1969Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCOne is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664