Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962
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As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMen take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620