All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BCWe cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850