They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes. – Jovius Category: Plagiarism
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. – Richard Powers Category: Technology
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. – Lou Henry Hoover Category: Fear
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman Category: Senses