Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654
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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCTrue originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCThe young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965