“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”
Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey
Source: Agnes Grey
“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
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Though Kennedy stated that he was quoting George Bernard Shaw when he said this, he is often thought to have originated the expression, which actually paraphrases a line delivered by the Serpent in Shaw's play Back To Methuselah: “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’". This phrase was first used by his brother John F. Kennedy in 1963 (June 28th), during his visit to Ireland, in his address to the Irish Dail (Government): "George Bernard Shaw, speaking as an Irishman, summed up an approach to life, 'Other people, he said, see things and say why? But I dream things that never were and I say, why not?" ( Address on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADeazX9blw.). Robert's other brother Edward famously quoted it (paraphrasing it even further), to conclude his eulogy to his late brother after his assassination (8 June 1968): Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not? - (Eulogy in CBS news video) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5268061n <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
tracking with closeups (31) “Unto Us a Child”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Lawrence M. Krauss (1954) American physicist
Interview with Richard Dawkins (5:12) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLctxRf7duU
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) American evangelist and publisher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 40.
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
The Last Song
Song lyrics, The One (1992)
“I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.”
Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution
Source: Revolution
Milton Friedman book Capitalism and Freedom
Introduction
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
Context: The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather "What can I and my compatriots do through government" to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.