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The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCRevolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887