Maybe you are the cool generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. – James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. – Alexander Herzen