Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972
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France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCAll revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615