Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCMan is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCEven though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904