“Around us fear, descending
Darkness of fear above”
James Joyce book Pomes Penyeach
On The Beach At Fontana, p. 14
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
“While it is foolish to deny the dark around us, it is futile to exaggerate it.”
— Michael Shea, book Nifft the Lean
Prologue (p. 8)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
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Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876)
Context: The world is dark around us and the prospect seems deepening in gloom. and yet there is light ahead. On the volume of the past in starry characters it is written — the starry legend greets us shining through the misty vistas of the future — that the great and noble shall not perish from among the sons of men, that the truth will triumph in the end, and that even the humblest of her servants may in this become the instrument of unending good. We are aiding in laying the foundations of a mighty edifice, whose completion shall not be seen in our day, no, nor in centuries upon centuries after us. But happy are we, indeed, if we can contribute even the least towards so high a consummation. The time calls for action. Up, then, and let us do our part faithfully and well. And oh, friends, our children's children will hold our memories dearer for the work which we begin this hour.
“There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il y a des gens niais qui se connaissent et qui emploient habilement leur niaiserie.
Maxim 208.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 11
“maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
Khaled Mashal (1956) Palestinian terrorist
Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al Praises Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradhawi for His Support of Suicide Operations and States: The Holocaust Was Exaggerated and Is Used to Extort Germany. Zionist Holocaust against Arabs Much Worse. http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1515.htm, video clip http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1515wmv&ak=null, July 2007 <br class="br">2007
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80