After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600