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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

—Herbert Hoover, 1936

We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.

—Virgil, 38 BC

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

—Barbara Walters, 1975

The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.

—Isaac Asimov, 1988

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

—Bertrand Russell, 1961

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.

—George Eliot, c. 1872

Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.

—Romalyn Ante, 2020

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819

Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.

—William Penn, 1693