Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927) Italian American anarchist executed by Massachusetts
Last words http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0823.html (April 15, 1920)
“I am a straightforward man, with no crime on my conscience,
But I was accused of being a spy for China
So life, you see, is never a very smooth business
And now the present bristles with difficulties.”
"Hard is the Road of Life"
1950's
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Michael Kurland book Ten Little Wizards
He turned to Lord Peter with a sudden realization. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I didn’t mean to imply—”
”That’s all right, Your Highness,” Lord Peter said. “It’s a common reaction. Their spies are dirty, filthy scum, not fit to wipe your boots on, while our spies are noble gentlemen doing dangerous work for the love of King and Country. Would that it were so, Your Highness, but I’m afraid that sometimes the desired image is at fault—in both directions.”
Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 4 (p. 33)
“To whom am I to present my pretty new book, freshly smoothed off with dry pumice stone?”
Cui dono lepidum novum libellum
Arido modo pumice expolitum?
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
I, lines 1–2
Carmina
Jeremy Hunt (1966) British politician
Tory leadership: Jeremy Hunt sets 30 September 'no-deal deadline' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48819260 BBC News (1 July 2019) <br class="br">2019
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Bryan Magee (1930–2019) British politician
Confessions of a Philosopher (1997)
Context: Speaking for myself, I am not one of those people who are able to deal with the problem by ignoring the questions: it may be a matter of temperament, but for me the apparent unanswerability of the questions sharpens the persistence with which they nag at my mind. Scarcely a day has gone by since my childhood in which I have not thought of them. In fact, the truth is that I have lived my life in thrall to them. They seem to me obviously the most important and interesting questions there are, and in my heart of hearts I do not really understand why not everybody sees them as such. And yet at the end of it all I have no solutions. I am as baffled now by the larger metaphysical questions of my existence as I was when I was a child — indeed more so, because my understanding of the depths and difficulties of the questions themselves is now so much greater.
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Refering to his conclusion to the Barber paradox or Russell's paradox. <br class="br">Dijkstra (1985) Where is Russell's paradox? http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD923a.html (EWD 923A). <br class="br">1980s
“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
On Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, in a press conference with Putin http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010618.html (16 June 2001) <br class="br">2000s, 2001 <br class="br">Context: I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country. And I appreciated so very much the frank dialogue.
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician
William Lever, quoted in C. Wilson, The History of Unilever, London: Cassell, 1954, vol. 1, p. 187; Requoted in Witzel (2004: 166)
