Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935
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Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCDo we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCHealth care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974