Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658
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What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012