“We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Wendell Berry (1934) author
"A Native Hill"
The Long-Legged House (1969)
Context: We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us... We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Mass Meeting, at Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955) http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/mia_mass_meeting_at_holt_street_baptist_church/. "Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream" is a quotation of Amos 5:24 in the Bible. <br class="br">1950s
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Source: Litany for Dictatorships (1935)
“Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
Mark Twain book Life on the Mississippi
Source: Life on the Mississippi
John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) American physicist
from a transcript of the video interview "Understanding Relativity," published at webofstories.com
Ananda Mahidol (1925–1946) eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII
Source: "Speech while conferring degree certificates to the graduating students of Chulalongkorn University" http://www.memohall.chula.ac.th/article/%E0%B8%81/ (13 April 1946)