Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936
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We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961To 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. 1872Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693