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- Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Defendant (1901)
- We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), Spech in March 1976
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Erewhon (1872)
- There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see. - Nat Burton, White Cliffs of Dover (song, 1941)
- When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
- John B. Bogart (1848 - 1921)
- A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
- Stanley Baldwin (1867 - 1947)
- No moral system can rest solely on authority.
- A. J. Ayer (1910 - 1989), Humanist Outlook
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun (1951)
- One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
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