Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992
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Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949