Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Narrator, Prologue, p. 1
2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
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Ho Iat Seng (1957) Chief Executive of Macau
Ho Iat Seng (2020) cited in " Macau confirms second patient infected with Chinese coronavirus https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3047337/macau-confirms-second-patient-infected-chinese-coronavirus?utm_content=article&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3J-0hvJBW78tSA93OtCjZ6icG5WEavRE5UoemIkusUOiK3vuJ1DgNRWZc#Echobox=1579765233" on South China Morning Post, 23 January 2020.
“Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?”
Donna Freitas (1972) American non-fiction writer and writer
Source: The Survival Kit
“We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 232
“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Laurie Penny book Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
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Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2010)
Robert M. Sapolsky (1957) American endocrinologist
Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech (2003)
Context: I am a reasonably emotional person, and I see no reason why that's incompatible with being a scientist. Even if we learn about how everything works, that doesn't mean anything at all. You can reduce how an impala leaps to a bunch of biomechanical equations. You can turn Bach into contrapuntal equations, and that doesn't reduce in the slightest our capacity to be moved by a gazelle leaping or Bach thundering. There is no reason to be less moved by nature around us simply because it's revealed to have more layers of complexity than we first observed.
The more important reason why people shouldn't be afraid is, we're never going to inadvertently go and explain everything. We may learn everything about something, and we may learn something about everything, but we're never going to learn everything about everything. When you study science, and especially these realms of the biology of what makes us human, what's clear is that every time you find out something, that brings up ten new questions, and half of those are better questions than you started with.
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
Passons passons puisque tout passe
Je me retournerai souvent
Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse
Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
"Cors de chasse" (Hunting Horns), line 9; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 159.
Alcools (1912)