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- 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
- I know why the caged bird sings.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - ), Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks (1944)
- Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
Costello: That's what I want to find out. - Bud Abbott (1895 - 1974), and Lou Costello, Naughty Nineties, 1943 film
- The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
- Art Linkletter (1912 - ), "A Child's Garden of Misinformation", 1965
- The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980), "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
- The medium is the message.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980), "Understanding Media", 1964
- Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), "Esquire", June 1960
- My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
- I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), In a press conference, November 11, 1973
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