If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCHome is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCThe things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927