In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881
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We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCA human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669