You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898
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I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCRebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCNo nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690