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Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

—Robert Benchley, 1935

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

—Eric Hodgins, 1964

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.

—Clarence Darrow, 1932

Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

—Herophilus, c. 290 BC