Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverb
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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCSuffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyMen are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020