Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCThere is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863