You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon Trotsky
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbPower is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCIn psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCAs usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914