Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Kill the Messenger (2008)
Marcel Desailly, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/sports/soccer/john-terry-chelseas-dark-knight.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Kill the Messenger (2008)
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645)
Context: Fifthly, the book of the Void. By Void I mean that which has no beginning and no end. Attaining this principle means not attaining the principle. The Way of strategy is the Way of nature. When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally. All this is the Way of the Void. I intend to show how to follow the true Way according to nature in the book of the Void.
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Speaking on Edwards' position for immediate withdrawal of about 40,000 American troops from Iraq (February 5, 2007), reported in the New York Observer http://www.observer.com/20070205/20070205_Jason_Horowitz_pageone_newsstory1-2.html <br class="br">2000s
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 11 (p. 194)
Ellen Kushner book The Privilege of the Sword
She really did smile this time. “Now you’re making me sound like a heroine. Be honest, Lucius. For all that you go on about the real world with its real people, you don’t really want to live in it, either.”
Part III, Chapter VIII (p. 299)
The Privilege of the Sword (2006)
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
Sir Douglas Robb Lectures, University of Auckland (1979); lecture 1, "Photons: Corpuscles of Light" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c&t=24m2s <br class="br">Context: There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like.
Alan Clark (1928–1999) British politician
Interviewed by John Pilger in the documentary Death of a Nation, broadcast on ITV February 22, 1994. <br class="br">The interview was transcribed in New Statesman and Society, February 18, 1994 http://www.hamline.edu/apakabar/basisdata/1994/02/21/0009.html.
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
David Starr Jordan, first President of Stanford University (page 8)
Sierra Club Bulletin - Memorial Issue