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I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.

—Hugh Plat, 1595

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

—Sigmund Freud, 1927

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

—Leonard Cohen, 1970

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

—Peter Boyle, 2002

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.

—Louisa May Alcott, 1866

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988