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An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.

—George Jackson, 1971

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.

—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BC

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

—Ian Dury, 1977

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Herman Melville, 1851

The sick man is the parasite of society.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BC

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

—William Morris, 1882

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

—David Foster Wallace, 2000

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

—Walter Lippmann, 1913