I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963
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One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCYou can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798