If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCI am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCTo be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbFor everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC