We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015
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War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCNo man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964