The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverb
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BC