Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939
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Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCTechnology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbNo man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000