Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984
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Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H.L. Mencken, 1921There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCA friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905