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When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917

The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

—Sigmund Freud, 1912

In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.

—William Petty, 1690

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

—Donald Trump, 2015

There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.

—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969

Too often, where we need water we find guns.

—Ban Ki-moon, 2008

It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

—Helen MacInnes, 1963

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

—Herophilus, c. 290 BC

Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.

—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

—Pablo Picasso, 1964

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003