Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973
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The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCNowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217