Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958
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Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbNo nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951