Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Desolation Row
“Comus and his midnight crew.”
Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), line 2
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Widely misattributed to Emerson on the Internet, this quote is actually taken from Alfred North Whitehead's essay "Harvard: The Future" (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936.)
Misattributed
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
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“Now his wars on God begin;
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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
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Marshall McLuhan
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power
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Variant: Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
Source: Either/Or, Part I
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
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