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It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936

Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.

—Nuruddin Farah, 1998

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

—Tertullian, c. 215

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?

—William Law, 1728

I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Commerce has made all winds her ministers.

—John Sterling, 1843

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

—Havelock Ellis, 1921

I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

—Coretta Scott King, 1994

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

—Walt Whitman, 1842

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946