We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904
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The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCIf you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbVery shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975