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Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

—Mark Twain, 1893

Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder. 

—James J. Cramer, 2006

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

—Judge Learned Hand, 1944

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

—Carl Sandburg, 1959

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

—B.F. Skinner, 1964

Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.

—Philip Stubbes, 1583

Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”

—William Shakespeare, c. 1599

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

—Henry Clay, 1842

Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.

—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600