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
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We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899A 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, 1766Language 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, 1949Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCCommunities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986