Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942