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—Hazel Rochman, 1995
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCTwo crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BC