“Historians often do not mention the truly important features of daily life, like games, concentrating instead on tedious political maneuvering.”

Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought (MAA 1997, 10th edition), p. 148, ISBN 0-88385-524-0

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American mathematician 1937

Oto Pešer

“Japan possesses the vitality and concentrated energies of a nation which has not yet reached its zenith. That energy is one of the most striking features of Japan. It is visible everywhere, in everyone; the old and the young, the workmen, the women, the children, the students, all … display in their daily life the most wonderful storage of concentrated energy.”

The Mother (1878–1973) spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo

Her observations in 1917 on the immense vitality of the Japanese during the war, quoted in "Japan" (1916-20)

“If education is truly the key. Then let's all of us become socialists and struggle to make it free to all, instead of making it expensive daily.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.”

Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) American politician

"Washington Post" (12 November 1967)

“When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”

Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States

“Instead of licking the boots of the rich people and bowing before them daily—We can stop doing that by simply knowing our worth in life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“It's very important to decode your own messages, like saying "I feel angry" instead of kicking the cat, and people who learn to do this find they are misunderstood less often and, as a fringe benefit, are clawed by fewer cats.”

Merle Shain (1935–1989) Canadian writer

Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

“In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last.”

Zbigniew Brzeziński book The Grand Chessboard

Conclusion, p. 209.
The Grand Chessboard (1997)

“In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Jace to Clary, pg. 317
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Historians often do not mention the truly important features of daily life, like games, concentrating instead on tedious political maneuvering.”

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