The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821
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Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706