Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) 3rd President of Ireland
Comment in 1966, quoted in Michael Collins : A Biography (1990) by Tim Pat Coogan, p. 432.
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.”
"The Business of a Novelist," review of William Rollins's The Shadow Before, 1934
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“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the Middle Ages. It was written in Magna Charta.
“The first character of a general idea so resulting is that it is living feeling.”
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
The Law of Mind (1892)
Context: The first character of a general idea so resulting is that it is living feeling. A continuum of this feeling, infinitesimal in duration, but still embracing innumerable parts, and also, though infinitesimal, entirely unlimited, is immediately present. And in its absence of boundedness a vague possibility of more than is present is directly felt.
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey (1986) Franco-Spanish actress
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Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) Indian-born film producer and director
On the making of good films. Interview with the Associated Press (2004).
“I'm in a phase right now where I want to be part of great films and enjoy my time on set.”
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