Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959
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Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597