What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905
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We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCUntil you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCOpposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994