There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692