The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1835. © The Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource.
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Arthur Schopenhauer referred to insurance as “a public sacrifice made on the altar of anxiety.”
Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992
