We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834