Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862