Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898
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Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCYou are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100