Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCAn unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664