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- It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
- Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
- Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
- ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
- There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), in a telegram, 1919
- Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947
- Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly. - Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), Waiting for Godot (1955)
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