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On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

—Edward Bellamy, 1888

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

—George H. W. Bush, 1990

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

—Jane Austen, 1818

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

—John Ruskin, 1856

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

What hath night to do with sleep?

—John Milton, 1637

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

—Paul Johnson, 1989

But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.

—Hélène Cixous, 1976