Fusion-Infusions

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature, but plunges him more deeply into them.”—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, 1900-1944

“Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778

“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”—Theodore Sturgeon, American science-fiction author, 1918-1985

“How many things I can do without!”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

“In many ways the saying ‘Know thyself’ is lacking. Better to know other people.”—Menander, Greek dramatist, 342-291 BC

“It Can’t Happen Here.”—Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, 1885-1951

“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”—Christopher Dawson, Br…

“One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”—Dorothy Parker, American writer, 1893-1967

“The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are.”—William Hazlitt, English drama critic, 1778-1830

“Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.”—Charles Simmons, British politician, 1893-1975

“The nature of men is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”—John F. Kennedy, U.S. President, 1917-1963

“Few people know how to be old.”—François de La Rochefoucauld, French maximist, 1613-1680

“Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”—Thomas A. Edison, American inventor, 1847-1931