“A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
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Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
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“I die hard but am not afraid to go.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long.
The first sentence here is sometimes presented as being his last statement before dying, but they are reported as part of the fuller statement, and as being said in the afternoon prior to his death in Life of Washington (1859) by Washington Irving, and his actual last words are stated to have been those reported by Tobias Lear below.
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Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 22
Oksana Shachko (1987–2018) Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN
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“I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's.”
Walter Gilbert (1932) American biochemist
Personal communication (4 April 2006) quoted in "Well, someone has to do it" at Moment of Science (July 2006) http://momentofscience.blogspot.com/2006/07/well-someone-has-to-do-it.html <br class="br">Context: I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic — the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. … Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument
“Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant communities of the world.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
Shah of Iran state visit to the USA, 1961 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1a5TAepYXs, <br class="br">Interviews
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
As quoted in "Cosmo Listens to Records" http://www.mediafire.com/view/za1l4i1dftotwg9/.png by Nat Hentoff, in Cosmopolitan (November 1965)