One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911
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As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbModeration in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCMen have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCInsurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860