You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996
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Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820The 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, 1888Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978