Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCDo that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCTo doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThe brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400