Miscellaneous quotes
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Summing Up (1938), p. 306Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Ends and Means (1937), Ch. 1, p. 9 [2012 reprint]
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 4The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 333Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931A Handful of Sand on the Shore, as quoted in Alterquest: the Alternative Quest for Answers (2006) by Karen Fiala, p. 127
Paul Harvey1918–2009Regular tag lines
Ian Fleming1908–1964From Russia with Love (1957), Ch. 11 : The Soft Life
Horace Walpole1717–1797Letter to Thomas Walpole (19 February 1785)
Colley Cibber1671–1757Richard III (altered) (1700), Act IV, scene 3.- SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Reader’s Digest (May 1979)
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
