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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? ↗

— Lord Byron

#anxious #atom #came #dead #go

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. ↗

— Lord Byron

#men #seems

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#believing #fall #go #government #governments

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#fears #live #optimist #pessimist #possible

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done. ↗

— Vince Cable

#clear #done #government #i #into

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen! ↗

— John Cameron

#also #anybody #collaborating #congenial #could

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #free #free man #freedom #himself

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors. ↗

— Jack Cade

#cherish #commons #destroy #duke #england

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike. ↗

— James Cagney

#because #bike #cars #especially #i

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces. ↗

— Robert Cailliau

#faces #great #humanity #humankind #many