Novelties please less than they impress. – Byron, Don Juan, 1824
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A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. – Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 (“Bernard of Chartres used
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established. – George Carlin
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. – Elihu Root
