Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2015, Remarks to the Kenyan People (July 2015)
“History is our best guide. It faithfully records the past journey, and gives us inspiration for the future.”
— Qin Gang
Source: "Keynote Speech by Ambassador Qin Gang at the Commemoration for the 50th Anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s Visit to China" https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjb_663304/zwjg_665342/zwbd_665378/202203/t20220303_10647768.html (25 February 2021)
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William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman
"Self-Culture", an address in Boston (September 1838) http://www.americanunitarian.org/selfculture.htm <br class="br">Context: I have insisted on our own activity as essential to our progress; but we were not made to live or advance alone. Society is as needful to us as air or food. A child doomed to utter loneliness, growing up without sight or sound of human beings, would not put forth equal power with many brutes; and a man, never brought into contact with minds superior to his own, will probably run one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of llfe.<br>It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
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Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On Iranian history
“There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. Omar Khayyam is right: "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on."
On using personal history in “Fruits of the Same Tree: An Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-stephanie-powell-watts/ in Fiction Writers Review (2012 Aug 6)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address at Oyster Bay, New York (27 July 1904) http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/104.txt, in response to the committee appointed to notify him of his nomination for the Presidency. <br class="br">1900s
“The best of prophets of the future is the past.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Journal (28 January 1821).
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician
As quoted in Epifanio de los Santos by Fernando Bernardo. Silent storms: inspiring lives of 101 great Filipinos. Anvil Publishing, Inc.(2000). p. 37–38.
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