There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738
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Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BCWe should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690