Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672
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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCO, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012