Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984
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I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCHappiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864