The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946
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Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BC