Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCI am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.
—George Washington, 1786This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975