Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010
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Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCThere are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse—the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.
—Cicero, c. 44 BCO flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCPeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790