Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BC
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Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCWe never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856