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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

—Joshua Slocum, 1900

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.

—Gina Smith, 1997

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

—Gregory VII, c. 1085

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

—Frantz Fanon, 1952

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

—Tertullian, c. 200

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

—Rebecca West, 1912

The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.

—George Eliot, 1860

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

—Immanuel Kant, 1784