He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbThe ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983