Source: Doomed
Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
“Evidence exhausts the truth.”
as quoted in Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde, ed. Charles Juliet, First Dalkey Archive edition, 2009, London and Champaign pp. 60-61
posthumous quotes
Frag. B 2.2-6, quoted by Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus I, 345
As quoted in The Class Book of American Literature (1826) edited by John Frost, Lesson XLIX : Specimen of the Eloquence of James Otis i extracted from "The Rebels."
Context: England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile, with bulrushes, as to fetter the step of freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land, than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. Arbitrary principles, like those, against which we now contend, have cost one king of England his life, another, his crown — and they may yet cost a third his most flourishing colonies.
We are two millions — one fifth fighting men. We are bold and vigorous, — and we call no man master. To the nation, from whom we are proud to derive our origin, we ever were, and we ever will be, ready to yield unforced assistance; but it must not, and it never can be extorted.
Some have sneeringly asked, "Are the Americans too poor to pay a few pounds on stamped paper? No! America, thanks to God and herself, is rich. But the right to take ten pounds, implies the right to take a thousand; and what must be the wealth, that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust? True the spectre is now small; but the shadow he casts before him, is huge enough to darken all this fair land.
“No amount of energy will take the place of thought.”
The Good Old Way
Joy and Power http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10395/10395-h/10395-h.htm (1903)
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
On the first public performances of some of the music from her album Actor in an interview for Billboard magazine (20 March 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w53ut9dzhI
Lin Chuan (2016) cited in " Premier clarifies Jinshan reactor stance http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/06/08/2003648131" on Taipei Times, 8 June 2016.
