Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010
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Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbThe most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941