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Said in the 1900s

• “The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.”

  Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.”

  W. H. Auden (1907–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I have the apparent, docile and resigned life of a weathervane spinning on the roof. (March 6, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 283)”

  Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I just work on the principle that of all the virtues gratitude (next to honesty) is the greatest, and that has helped me on numerous occasions in my life.”

  Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

  Carl Sagan (1934–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “אם לאדם יש כאב, הוא צועק. אם הוא לא צועק, סימן שזה לא כואב לו. אתה חייב לזעוק זעקה גדולה, ומה שה' יעשה – יעשה.”

  מאיר כהנא (1932–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Science has adapted itself entirely to the wealthy classes and accordingly has set itself to heal those who can afford everything, and it prescribes the same methods for those who have nothing to spare.”

  Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The most important thing I found out from [my father] is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.”

  Richard Feynman (1918–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.”

  Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (1929), p. 68.

• “All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”

  Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Pacifism and Philosophy" (1936)

• “Agni, the sum-total of the Gods. He is Vishnu and the Sun in His glory; He is the fire of matter and the fire of mind blended and fused; He is the intelligence which throbs in every atom; He is the Mind that actuates the system; He is the fire of substance and the substance of fire; He is the Flame and that which the Flame destroys. p. 602”

  Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic.”

  Richard Nixon (1913–1994) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: No More Vietnams (1987)

• “To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.”

  Mark Twain (1835–1910) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (30 May 1902); also in Mark Twain : A Life, p. 611

• “Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.”

  Che Guevara (1928–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you want to be thought anything of amongst Englishmen, you must make yourself see their point of view. They don't care for melancholy people, and have a contempt for sentiment. This applies to love as well as to patriotism and religion.”

  André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.”

  Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Se vive con la esperanza de llegar a ser un recuerdo.”

  Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Generally speaking, under capitalism, the ownership of capital is separate from the application of capital to production; money capital is separate from industrial or productive capital; the rentier, living entirely on income obtained from money capital, is separated from the entrepreneur and from all those directly concerned in the management of capital.”

  Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.”

  Emil Cioran (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

  George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?”

  Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This novel was doomed from the start. All posture and no substance. Whether I write one page or a hundred, it amounts to the same thing. Though I knew this from the start.”

  Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “On this hallowed ground, heroic deeds were performed and eloquent words were spoken a century ago. We, the living, have not forgotten–and the world will never forget–the deeds or the words of Gettysburg. We honor them now as we join on this Memorial Day of 1963 in a prayer for permanent peace of the world and fulfillment of our hopes for universal freedom and justice.”

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

  G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In The Illustrated London News (19 April 1930)