We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995
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Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
—Samuel Pepys, 1662By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCMan is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922