Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverb
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We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250I 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, 1595