Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Speech on the day of his release, Cape Town (11 February 1990)
1990s
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Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Speech on the day of his release, Cape Town (11 February 1990)
1990s
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Our March to Freedom is Irreversible (1990)
“Congratulations, you have won
It's a year's subscription of bad puns.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Opinion.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)
William Lenthall (1591–1662) English politician, died 1662
Response to King Charles I on being asked the whereabouts of five fugitive members of the House of Commons (4 January 1642), from the journal of Sir Simonds d'Ewes, quoted in Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England : From the Norman conquest, in 1066. To the year, 1803 (1807), p. 1010.
Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) British poet and academic
England's Ideal and Other Papers on Social Subjects (1887), Routledge, 2016, p. https://books.google.it/books?id=53uPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT71
“If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.”
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Pero el que no pudiere alcançar a tener la sabiduría en servidumbre, lógrela en familiaridad.
Maxim 15 (p. 9)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 48-49
Norman Mailer book The Naked and the Dead
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 3
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Context: You're a fool if you don't realize this is going to be the reactionary's century, perhaps their thousand-year reign. It's the one thing Hitler said which wasn't completely hysterical.
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
Letter of application to the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.
Source: (13 March 1832); published in At the Piano with Fauré (1963) by Marguerite Long, p. 31