I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940
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Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897