The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCIf it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Man 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, 1819Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCDeath keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886