Natacha Rambova (1897–1966) American film personality and fashion designer
On her first meeting Valentino, p. 28
Rudolph Valentino: A Wife's Memories of an Icon (2009)
“The man and woman firmly shook hands. The solution to the overpopulation problem might rest in such handshakes.”
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Memorial Day speech (1963)
Context: It is empty to plead that the solution to the dilemmas of the present rests on the hands of the clock. The solution is in our hands. Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness among the civilizations of history, Americans — white and Negro together — must be about the business of resolving the challenge which confronts us now.
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Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer
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“As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.”
Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
Essentials to Peace (1953)
Context: I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. Great single endeavors like a League of Nations, a United Nations, and undertakings of that character, are of great importance and in fact absolutely necessary, but they must be treated as steps toward the desired end.
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 132.
Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker
A Brief History of Everything (1996)
Context: Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we reach the worldcentric moral perspective through a difficult and laborious process of interior growth and transcendence.
“He hath shook hands with time.”
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act V, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
