Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864
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The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911I’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, 2008Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCEnemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897