David Bohm (1917–1992) American theoretical physicist
Statement of 1986, as quoted in Towards a Theory of Transpersonal Decision-Making in Human-Systems (2007) by Joseph Riggio, p. 66
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“Please give a detailed account as to how I can best serve humanity”
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic
Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice
On Vocational Choices
Context: In those ways that open to you day by day. It isn't always the individual that plans to accomplish some great deed that does the most. It is the one who meets the opportunities and privileges which are accorded it day by day. As such opportunities are used, there are better ways opened. For what we use in the way of helpfulness to others, increases in itself. Begin with what you are!
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic
Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice
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“Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is birth in the spiritual.”
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic
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“Wall Street was an extension of Scarface.”
Oliver Stone (1946) American film director, screenwriter, and producer
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Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915) President of Mexico
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Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian
This statement is not to be found in the works of Herodotus. It appears in the acknowledgements to Mark Twain's A Horse's Tale (1907) preceded by the words "Herodotus says", but Twain was simply summarizing what he took to be Herodotus' attitude to historiography.
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“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Immanuel Kant book Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.
Variant translations: Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Never a straight thing was made from the crooked timber of man.
Source: Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
