Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
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The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbAnyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012