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—Adrienne Rich, 1980
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We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCIt is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCI 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, 1970A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693