The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934
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The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCIt was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Freedom 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, 1999We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCThe belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886