We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735