It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverb
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Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Secrets 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, 1998Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215What 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, 1728I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCCommerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994I 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, 1842Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946