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“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
William Shakespeare
“Speak low, if you speak love.”
William Shakespeare
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
William Shakespeare
“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
Winston Churchill
“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”
Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.”
Frank Herbert
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Frank Herbert
“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
Frank Herbert
“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
Frank Herbert
“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
Kurt Vonnegut
“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”
Charles Bukowski
“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”
Charles Bukowski
“The less I needed the better I felt.”
Charles Bukowski
“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.”
Thomas Mann
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
Thomas Mann