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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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“The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.”

Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American journalist

quoted by Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times, Saturday, October 7, 2006

“You just stay patient, that's all.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof, or pattern anywhere else.”

Thomas Pynchon book V.

Source: V. (1963), Chapter Seven, Part I
Context: Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof, or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which had come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by the funny-looking automobiles of the '30's, the curious fashions of the '20's, the particular moral habits of our grandparents. We produce and attend musical comedies about them and are conned into a false memory, a phony nostalgia about what they were. We are accordingly lost to any sense of continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see.

“I almost had to wait.”

Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715

J'ai failli attendre.
Regarded as apocryphal by E. Fournier, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire (4th ed. 1884). ch.xlviii
Disputed

“But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an objective, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were established almost everywhere…”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book I, 1.13-[1] (See also: Karl Marx, Grundrisse, Introduction p. 7)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire…”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book III, 3.37-[1] (Speech of Cleon..).
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III

“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Variant translation: "...the search for truth strains the patience of most people, who would rather believe the first things that come to hand." Translation by Paul Woodruff.
Book I, 1.20-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“Mein Führer, who commands The Ninth Army, you or I?”

Walter Model (1891–1945) German field marshal

To Adolf Hitler on 20 January 1942, Wolfsschanze. Quoted in "Generalfeldmarschall Model Biographie" - Page 115 - by Walter Göriltz - 2012

“To be a Latin Lover a man, above all, has to be a great fucker — he has to be infallible and I'm not that. I often foul it up.”

Marcello Mastroianni (1924–1996) Italian actor

In 1977, to Dick Cavett while accompanied by Sophia Loren; quoted by French Film Stars Database http://hri.shef.ac.uk/filmstars/starsDetail.php?intID=978&strRecord=Newspaper_Article, which sources it to his obituary in The Guardian

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”

Edward Weston (1886–1958) American photographer

“There is no death without life. Therefore, death depends entirely on life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Attributed on the internet but not found in print prior to an attribution in Aero Digest, Vols. 58–59, 1949, p. 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=q2ofAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Life+is+simple%22+but+we+insist+on+making+it+complicated&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Life+is+simple%22+ <br class="br">Misattributed, Not Chinese

“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.”

Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) Brazilian racing driver

Interview, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJL8fKtTj8‎

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“The sadness will last forever.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm <br class="br">Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying <br class="br">1890s

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