You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997
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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCThe dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCA frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCYou may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyYou can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895