Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyThey exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCAs matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCGovernments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963