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—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821
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All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbMen were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverb