A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964
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It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbEvery gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCFriendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702