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—James J. Cramer, 2006
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
—Rebecca West, 1939