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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

—Emma Goldman, 1917

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

—Edmund Burke, 1796

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

—Richard Feynman, 1986

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

—William Hazlitt, 1819

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

—Marcel Marceau, 1958

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

—Alvin Toffler, 1970

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.

—Helen Keller, 1928

A jest breaks no bones.

—Samuel Johnson, 1781

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

A dead enemy always smells good.

—Aulus Vitellius, 69

It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.

—Margaret Atwood, 2000

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

—Athenaeus, c. 230

War is fear cloaked in courage. 

—William Westmoreland, 1966