The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyFriends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945