Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936
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Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCI never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCA functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCEveryone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982