“I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/bushisms/2009/01/ws_greatest_hits.html http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/how-will-you-remember-george-w-bush <br class="br">2000s, 2008
"Emily Webb"
Our Town (1938)
Context: I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back — up the hill — to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths... and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.... Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute?... I'm ready to go back... I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Trump campaign speech in Greenville, North Carolina http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-classified-information/ (6 September 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016, September
Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/video/hatin-palin/20DB84EF-81CF-4004-9F37-ADFB6C81B810.html, October 23, 2008, interview with Kelsey Hubbard.
“Every living being on earth loves life above all else.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi
The Unity of Religious Ideals, Part I : Seeking for the Ideal
The Spiritual Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Context: Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.
