The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCOpposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbA self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215Big head, little wit.
—French proverbTreaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390