Paul Auster (1947) novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
Paul Auster, Man In The Dark, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 63.
Man In The Dark (2008)
“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.”
Civil Disobedience (1849)
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Chicago, IL http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly (17 June 1912) <br class="br">1910s
Žádné pocínání není samo o sobe dohré ani zlé. Teprve jeho místo v rádu ciní je dobrým ci zlým.
The Joke (1967)
Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer
As quoted in Friends' Intelligencer Vol. XI (1854), p. 821
“We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.”
Dylan Thomas book Under Milk Wood
Source: Under Milk Wood
Peter Singer book The Most Good You Can Do
Preface (p. vii)
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015)
“He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”
Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer
Source: The Winter Rose
“It is good that it came out that bad.”
Lech Wałęsa (1943) Polish politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former President of Poland
Dobrze się stało, że źle się stało.
Source: Mariusz Urbanek, "Jestem za, a nawet przeciw", in: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009, ISBN 978-83-245-8733-9
“I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.”
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
2000s, 2008, (2008)