The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969
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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCI never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877