Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958
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Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCIs there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951