Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862
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Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbDread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbThe successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843