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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

—Ralph Nader, 2000

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!

—Cotton Mather, 1728

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

—William James, 1902

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1594

What is life but organized energy?

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

—Anaïs Nin, 1939

Words pay no debts.

—William Shakespeare, 1601

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

—D.H. Lawrence, 1920

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

The sea hath no king but God alone.

—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909