“Let us be English or let us be French… but above all let us be Canadians”
John A. Macdonald (1815–1891) 1st Prime Minister of Canada
http://www.canadianwild.ca/canadiana/sirjohn.html <br class="br">Undated
“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
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Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Life and Destiny (1913)
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) Swiss painter and sculptor
reprinted in 'Zero', ed. Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, Cambridge, Mass; MIT Press 1973, p. 120
Quotes, 1960's, untitled statements in 'Zero 3', (1961)
“Come, let us arm with speed; and let us two
Try, what our forces may united do.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
Context: More than a century ago, in 1804, in Letter XC of that series that constitutes the immense monody of his Obermann, Sénancour wrote the words which I have put at the head of this chapter — and of all the spiritual descendants of the patriarchal Rousseau, Sénancour was the most profound and intense; of all the men of heart and feeling that France has produced, not excluding Pascal, he was the most tragic. "Man is perishable. That may be; but let us perish resisting, and if it is nothingness that awaits us, do not let us so act that it shall be a just fate." Change this sentence from it negative to the positive form — "And if it is nothingness that awaits us, let us so act that it shall be an unjust fate" — and you get the firmest basis of action for the man who cannot or will not be a dogmatist.
Ruperto Santos (1957) 21st-century Catholic Bishop of Balanga
Source: Church leaders hail Philippine peace deal http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2017/04/07/church_leaders_hail_philippine_peace_deal/en-1304176 (2017)
Michael Mullen (1946) U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
To Army War College Graduates, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 7 June 2008 http://www.jcs.mil/chairman/speeches/07JUN08_ArmyWarCollege_Commencement.html, CJCS.
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 98
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Há sensações que são sonos, que ocupam como uma névoa toda a extensão do espírito, que não deixam pensar, que não deixam agir, que não deixam claramente ser.
