We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCYouth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881