In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970