"A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"So we didn't get less government... that we were promised. Next we were told we should have deregulation. There's no such thing as deregulation. Everything has rules. ...What we got were new regulatio…"

— David Cay Johnston

Economics1948

#politics

"By capital we understand everything that, from the special use by the individual, or from its being placed at the disposal of others, produces a revenue or rent. We do not inquire into its origin, or …"

— Albrecht Thaer

Mathematics1855–1921

#philosophy

"Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affa…"

— Ambrose Bierce

Literature1842–1914

#justice

"Fact is, I'm tired of being told what's OK for me. I'm fucking tired of multiple safewords, and sometimes I'm tired of safewords altogether. I don't want to negotiate everything to death, I want to be…"

— Laura Antoniou

Literature1963

#fear