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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (January 23, 1948), cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 154
Man is the only animal that blushes⁠—or needs to.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 27, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allenborn 1935“My Speech to the Graduates”
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Address in Des Moines, Iowa (4 November 1910)
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCXVII
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in The Daily News (4 August 1994). A nearly identical quote can be found at the end of the second paragraph of his lecture Life in the Universe (1996).
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall⁠—think of it, always.
JBJohn Briley1925–2019Often credited to Mahatma Gandhi
With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured.
Mark Twain1835–1910
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Just So Stories (1902), The Elephant’s Child.
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Often credited to Aristotle
I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
Socrates470–399 BC
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
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