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- The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg
- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
- Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)
- Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
- There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
- Robert Jackson
- Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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