Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992
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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCI’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966