Fortune Quote #3044

If I had known how to name them, I should then have signed off in detail
from all the societies which I never signed on to; but I did not know where
to find a complete list. -- Henry David Thoreau

Fortune Quote #3043

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in,
but to live in it, be it good or bad. -- Henry David Thoreau

Fortune Quote #3042

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India rubber, would never
manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually
putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the
effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would
deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put
obstructions on the railroads. -- Henry David Thoreau

Fortune Quote #3041

...every sufficiently good analogy is yearning to become a
functor. -- John Baez, "Quantum Quandaries: a Category-Theoretic
Perspective"

Fortune Quote #3040

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Many a
man can mark his ruin from some murder or other he committed and perhaps
thought little of at the time. -- Thomas De Quincey

Fortune Quote #3039

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on
living with for the rest of your life. -- Ann Richards

Fortune Quote #3038

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. --
Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #3037

A society that exalts virtue has 270 million policemen. A society that
scorns virtue cannot have enough. -- Michael Novak

Fortune Quote #3036

Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the
past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their
faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility
all the way. Looking back, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their
mistakes, but not the fog. And yet all of them... were walking in fog, and
one might wonder: who is more blind? -- Milan Kundera

Fortune Quote #3035

If we are to deny new developments whenever they require relinquishment of
the ideas of the past, we shall be serving not truth but only our own
vanity. -- Hedrick, 1933 (about intuitionism in mathematics)