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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCThe world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbEach night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCLanguage is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936