Source: " Under Milk Wood http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_umw1.html" (1954)
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“[The Soviet government] is the most realistic regime in the world — no ideals.”
Golda Meir
(1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel
Source: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=WWMHAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA132&dq=%5BThe+Soviet+government%5D+is+the+most+realistic+regime+in+the+world+%E2%80%94+no+ideals.&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=YpSgVOShKoyogwT9loTIAg&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%5BThe%20Soviet%20government%5D%20is%20the%20most%20realistic%20regime%20in%20the%20world%20%E2%80%94%20no%20ideals.&f=false
“In Israel, we read from right to left.”
Golda Meir
(1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel
To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third'
Source: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=kOICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Golda+Meir+In+Israel,+we+read+from+right+to+left.&source=bl&ots=JVGhSq8aqj&sig=i0y3YiXiGFjO7UPRpBvAP36p6e0&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=zpOgVJjnDIuVNvJK&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Golda%20Meir%20In%20Israel%2C%20we%20read%20from%20right%20to%20left.&f=false
Source: What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition; 1999), Chapter 1, Science as knowledge derived form the facts of experience, p. 8.
Source: What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition; 1999), Chapter 1, Science as knowledge derived form the facts of experience, p. 5.
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
Pablo Neruda
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“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
Groucho Marx
(1890–1977) American comedian
“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”
Groucho Marx
(1890–1977) American comedian
“I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.”
Groucho Marx
(1890–1977) American comedian
When asked for a photograph for identification
The Groucho Phile (1976)
“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
Groucho Marx
(1890–1977) American comedian
Charles Manson
(1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-U2-cAUMM
“I love you. That'll be the ending of this under the words.”
Michael Jackson
(1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
This Is It
“I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!”
Marilyn Monroe
(1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in a letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, in 1961. Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)
“They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.”
Iggy Pop
(1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
“If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.”
Iggy Pop
(1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
An earlier statement, quoted in the article.
Rolling Stone interview (2003)
Iggy Pop
(1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
and then go from there.
Rolling Stone interview (2003)
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
Joe Hill
(1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: NOS4A2
“You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.”
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
Martial
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Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
V, 81 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
