Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831