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Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.

—Peter Hitchcock, 2010

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

—Rachel Field, 1939

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1605

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.

—T. H. Huxley, 1895

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

—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944

Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.

—French proverb

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

—Erich Fromm, 1941