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One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.

—Charles P. Berkey, 1946

Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.

—Sophocles, c. 450 BC

The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

I have loved war too well.

—Louis XIV, 1715

Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

—Thomas Jefferson

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

This is Year Zero.

—Pol Pot, 1975

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

—Alvin Toffler, 1970