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—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC
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I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
—Georges Bataille, 1957I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.
—Leonard Cohen, 1970Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959