Tyrone Hayes (1967) American biologist
The toxic baby https://www.ted.com/talks/tyrone_hayes_penelope_jagessar_chaffer_the_toxic_baby (December 2010)
“It turns out that the Danish gunboats are rather better than ours. They draw less water and carry heavier ordnance and the results are not at all pretty.”
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Prey (2001)
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Paul Blobel (1894–1951) German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
Quoted in "Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time" - Page 26 - by Alan Rosenberg, Gerald Eugene Myers - History - 1988.
Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) French priest, founder and saint
As quoted in Homelessness in America : A Forced March to Nowhere (1982), p. 121
Context: You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see and the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.
Cynthia Barnett (1966) American journalist
Source: https://www.jou.ufl.edu/alumni-and-friends/cjc-environment-voices/cynthia-barnett/
“Our security has been diminished rather than enhanced as a result of the conquests in this war.”
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994) israeli intellectual
"The Territories" (1968)
Anthony Trollope book The Small House at Allington
Source: The Small House at Allington (1864), Ch. 14
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) American architect
Introduction
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 281.
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Maxim 19 (p. 12)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
Context: Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would. This rule does not hold true for bad things: when an evil has been exaggerated, its reality makes people applaud. What was feared as ruinous comes to seem tolerable.
