Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610