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What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?

The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde