Today Quotes
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Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.Benjamin Franklin
I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 2
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Martin Luther King Jr.
Because the women are watching.T. E. Lawrence, ...when asked, Why do men go to war?
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.Archimedes, (ca. 235 BC)
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteur
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.Max Frisch
It is said that power corrupts, but actually itDavid Brin, on power and corruption
