There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928
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The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839