Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleThere is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966