Raid Jahid Fahmi (1950) Iraqi politician
Interview with Al Jazeera (25 May 2018)
Four Lectures on Technology (1949)
Raid Jahid Fahmi (1950) Iraqi politician
Interview with Al Jazeera (25 May 2018)
“For to like the same things and to dislike the same things, only this is a strong friendship.”
Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XX, 4; quoting Catiline
“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 338
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“What is wisdom? Always desiring the same things, and always refusing the same things.”
quid est sapienta? semper idem velle atque idem nolle.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Here, Seneca uses the same observation that Sallust made regarding friendship (in his historical account of the Catilinarian conspiracy, Bellum Catilinae[XX.4]) to define wisdom.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XX: On practicing what you preach, Line 5
“It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
The Nature, Importance and Liberties of Belief (1873)
Context: It is with the mind as it is with the body, in this respect. The physician says to a household: "Here is a great realm of food. Eat that which agrees with you. The same kinds of food do not agree with all people. If you grow healthy on the food that I loathe, that is the food for you, although it disagrees with me; and if I grow healthy on the food that you loathe, that is the food for me, although it disagrees with you." And it is very much so in the matter of believing. All cannot believe the same things, or cannot believe things in the same way.
"But," say men, "believing amounts to nothing if one man may believe one thing, and another man another thing." Well, let me ask, then, is it not possible for truth to be so large that ten men shall believe it differently, and yet each one of them so sectionally believe it, that they shall be all true though none of them has more than partial truth, and that all of them shall compass the whole truth?
“And now I cry in the middle of the night for the same damn thing.”
Kelly Clarkson (1982) American singer-songwriter, actress
Because Of You
Lyrics, Breakaway (2004)
“If we are to use women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Socrates, as quoted by Bettany Hughes: "Feminism started with the Buddha and Confucius 25 centuries ago" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11785181/Feminism-started-with-the-Buddha-and-Confucius-25-centuries-ago.html. <br class="br">Attributed
Benoît Minisini (1973) French computer programmer
Answering why he wrote an independent scripting language for Gambas. Quoted from FOSDEM interview, " http://www.madeasy.de/7/benoit.htm http://www.madeasy.de/7/benoit.htm" Mad Easy (2005-02-14)