Invention is the mother of necessity.
-- Thorstein Veblen AA

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
-- Miguel de Cervantes AA

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer AA

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. AA