“If you like an exercise, chances are you’re doing it wrong.”
Arthur Jones (inventor) (1926–2007) American inventor
The New High Intensity Training (2004)
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.”
Letter to Abigail Smith Adams http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/006/1200/1251.jpg from Paris while a Minister to France (22 February 1787), referring to Shay's Rebellion. "Jefferson's Service to the New Nation," Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/thomas-jefferson/history4.html <br class="br">1780s
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to James Madison (30 January 1787); referring to Shays' Rebellion Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 6:65
1780s
Randal Marlin (1938) Canadian academic
Source: Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002), Chapter Five, Advertising And Public Relations Ethics, p. 176
“I wish to uphold counsel in the exercise of their discretion.”
Arthur Kekewich (1832–1907) British judge
In re Somerset; Somerset v. Earl Poulett (1893), L. R. [1894], 1 Ch. 249.
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) Japanese film maker
On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
Context: I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
“I liked him better than all the other characters, and much more so than Frodo.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Speaking of Gollum. From J. R. R. Tolkien: An Audio Portrait, BBC Radio Collection (2001), ISBN 0-563-53692-6. CD 1, track 17.
