Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934