The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922
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A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897A brilliant boxing match, quicksilver in its motions, transpiring far more rapidly than the mind can absorb, can have the power that Emily Dickinson attributed to great poetry: you know it’s great when it takes the top of your head off.
—Joyce Carol Oates, 1987Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978