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Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904

We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.

—George Eliot, 1860

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.

—Josiah Tucker, 1766

Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

—Martin Heidegger, 1949

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

—Catherine the Great, c. 1796

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

—Francis Bacon, c. 1600

Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.

—Theodore Roszak, 1972

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

—Richard Feynman, 1986