Paris, 24 January 1919. Churchill: A Life. Gilbert, Martin (1992). New York: Holt, p. 408. ISBN 9780805023961
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Address to his English disciples, as quoted in The life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel, 5th edition (1960) by Romain Rolland, p. 53
Chap. xii.—The two kinds of spirits.
Address to the Greeks
“If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.”
Esther M. Friesner (1951) American writer
Source: My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
“Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Ever'body might be just one big soul,
Well it looks that a-way to me.”
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician
"Tom Joad" (1940) http://web.archive.org/20020319170819/www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/tomjoad.html, a ballad based on the character Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck <br class="br">Context: p>Ever'body might be just one big soul,<br>Well it looks that a-way to me.<br>Everywhere that you look, in the day or night,<br>That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma,<br>That's where I'm a-gonna be.Wherever little children are hungry and cry,<br>Wherever people ain't free.<br>Wherever men are fightin' for their rights,<br>That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma.<br>That's where I'm a-gonna be.</p
Julius Streicher (1885–1946) German politician
Last words, 10/16/46, quoted in "The Quest for the Nazi Personality" - Page 157 by Eric A. Zillmer - History - 1995
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.356
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Letter to J.D. Hooker, 29 March 1863
In The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 11, 1863; Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan Porter, Sheila Ann Dean, Jonathan R. Topham, Sarah Wilmot, editors; Cambridge University Press, September 1999, page 278
Sometimes paraphrased as “One might as well speculate about the origin of matter.”
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