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Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.

—Marshall McLuhan, 1964

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.

—Margot Asquith, 1922

Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

—Madame de Sévigné, 1671

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

—James Russell Lowell, 1884

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

—Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913