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I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

—John Maynard Keynes, 1917

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1981

There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.

—William Howard Taft, 1921

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

—Plato, c. 375 BC

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

—Alexander Pope, 1738

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

—Saint Augustine, 397

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

—Billie Holiday, 1956

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967

Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.

—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

Only the little people pay taxes.

—Leona Helmsley, 1989