“It's impossible not to admire a person who devoted his life to his ideas.”
Gideon Levy (1953) Israeli journalist
This Biography Makes It Clear: The Founder of the Palestinian Popular Front Was Right (April 15, 2018)
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.”
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Of Sir Richard Jebb, Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties (1956)
1950s
Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
As quoted in Walt Disney, Magician of the Movies (1966) by Bob Thomas p. 116
Context: A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Oration on Lafayette (1834)
Context: There have doubtless been, in all ages, men, whose discoveries or inventions, in the world of matter or of mind, have opened new avenues to the dominion of man over the material creation; have increased his means or his faculties of enjoyment; have raised him in nearer approximation to that higher and happier condition, the object of his hopes and aspirations in his present state of existence.
Lafayette discovered no new principle of politics or of morals. He invented nothing in science. He disclosed no new phenomenon in the laws of nature. Born and educated in the highest order of feudal Nobility, under the most absolute Monarchy of Europe, in possession of an affluent fortune, and master of himself and of all his capabilities at the moment of attaining manhood, the principle of republican justice and of social equality took possession of his heart and mind, as if by inspiration from above. He devoted himself, his life, his fortune, his hereditary honors, his towering ambition, his splendid hopes, all to the cause of liberty. He came to another hemisphere to defend her. He became one of the most effective champions of our Independence; but, that once achieved, he returned to his own country, and thenceforward took no part in the controversies which have divided us. In the events of our Revolution, and in the forms of policy which we have adopted for the establishment and perpetuation of our freedom, Lafayette found the most perfect form of government. He wished to add nothing to it.
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) Indian theologian
Kunnumpuram, K. (ed) (2006) Life in Abundance: Indian Christian Reflections on Spirituality. Mumbai: St Pauls
On Spirituality
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) Dutch historian
p 14
Simon Stevin: Science in the Netherlands around 1600, 1970
“One dream can change the development of a personality, and change his physical course.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 47
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2