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—Marshall McLuhan, 1969
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A false report rides post.
—English proverbThe human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCThe various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45