It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCThere are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867