Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903