“For man has invented his doom; first step was touching the moon.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill
“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.”
— Ayn Rand, book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
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U.G. Krishnamurti book Mind is a Myth
Source: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand
Jonathan Pearce (1959) British football commentator
The Baggies made amends and striker Robert Earnshaw equalised with ten minutes to go. The Gunners as a result had failed to close the gap at the top of the league, which helped open a five-point gap with Chelsea by the end of November 2004.
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Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008) American writer
Aham Da Asmi. I Am He. Everything has already died. This is the other world.
Page 423, 2004 Standard Edition.
The Knee of Listening
“Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Flames in the forehead of the morning sky", John Milton, Lycidas, line 168.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“Woever he was who first depicted Amor as a boy, don’t you think it was a wonderful touch? He was the first to see that lovers live without sense.”
Quicumque ille fuit, puerum qui pinxit Amorem
nonne putas miras hunc habuisse manus?
is primum vidit sine sensu vivere amantes
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xii, 1-3; translation by A. S. Kline
Elegies
