It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954
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Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCToday’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCIf there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae West