“The Wild Gallant, act ii. scene. 1.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet
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“No one is entitled to a holding except by (repeated) applications of 1 and 2.”
Robert Nozick book Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Source: Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 151
Context: 1. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that holding.
2. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in transfer, from someone else entitled to the holding, is entitled to the holding.
3. No one is entitled to a holding except by (repeated) applications of 1 and 2.
Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) U.S. poet
Cardinal Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 89.
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
Source: The Separate Notebooks
Ray Dalio (1949) American businessman
Ray Dalio, [Principles: Life and Work, https://books.google.com/books?id=6LGuDgAAQBAJ&pg=PR7, xi, 19 September 2017, Simon & Schuster, 978-1-5011-2405-1]
Principles: Life and Work (2017)
“To change one’s life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer
Hughey, Aaron W. (book reviewer), "Book review: ‘Quiet’ suggests introverts are undervalued by society," The Daily News (Kentucky; BGDailyNews.com), July 15, 2012.
“What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
Maxim 1031, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)