You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCOf troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCThe more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCWhatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986