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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

Dread attends the unknown.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1998

Idolatry is the mother of all games.

—Novatian, c. 255

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

The sea hath no king but God alone.

—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

—Eric Hodgins, 1964

Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?

—Philip Johnson, 1965

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879

Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.

—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BC

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

—Mark Twain, 1897

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1897

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582