Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972
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Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCNothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCGossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbA man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC