Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608