It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbCommunities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCThe men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476A passion for horses, players, and gladiators seems to be the epidemic folly of the times. The child receives it in his mother’s womb; he brings it with him into the world, and in a mind so possessed, what room for science, or any generous purpose?
—Tacitus, c. 100At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCChildren are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870