“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
http://www.girlscantwhat.com/2007/10/15/i-am-my-own-experiment/ <br class="br">Variant: I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
“I know well enough, from my own experience, the historical ebb and flow. They are governed by their own laws. Mere impatience will not expedite their change.”
— Leon Trotsky, book My Life
Foreword
My Life (1930)
Context: I know well enough, from my own experience, the historical ebb and flow. They are governed by their own laws. Mere impatience will not expedite their change. I have grown accustomed to viewing the historical perspective not from the stand point of my personal fate. To understand the causal sequence of events and to find somewhere in the sequence one's own place – that is the first duty of a revolutionary. And at the same time, it is the greatest personal satisfaction possible for a man who does not limit his tasks to the present day.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Section XII: “The Liberation of a People's Vital Energies”, p. 286 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA286&dq=%22If+there+are+men+in+this+country%22 <br class="br">1910s, The New Freedom (1913) <br class="br">Context: If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.
“The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.”
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843) British writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 101.
“I don't know when a film has connected more immediately with my own personal experience.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review of The Tree of Life (2 June 2011) http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110602/REVIEWS/110609998 <br class="br">Reviews, Four star reviews <br class="br">Context: Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives. The only other film I've seen with this boldness of vision is Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and it lacked Malick's fierce evocation of human feeling. … I don't know when a film has connected more immediately with my own personal experience. In uncanny ways, the central events of The Tree of Life reflect a time and place I lived in, and the boys in it are me. If I set out to make an autobiographical film, and if I had Malick's gift, it would look so much like this. … There is a father who maintains discipline and a mother who exudes forgiveness, and long summer days of play and idleness and urgent unsaid questions about the meaning of things. … The film's portrait of everyday life, inspired by Malick's memories of his hometown of Waco, Texas, is bounded by two immensities, one of space and time, and the other of spirituality. The Tree of Life has awe-inspiring visuals suggesting the birth and expansion of the universe, the appearance of life on a microscopic level and the evolution of species. This process leads to the present moment, and to all of us. We were created in the Big Bang and over untold millions of years, molecules formed themselves into, well, you and me.<br>And what comes after? In whispered words near the beginning, "nature" and "grace" are heard. … The film's coda provides a vision of an afterlife, a desolate landscape on which quiet people solemnly recognize and greet one another, and all is understood in the fullness of time.
Daniel Inouye (1924–2012) American politician from Hawaii, Medal of Honor recipient and World War II veteran
Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (Iran-Contra hearings) (1987) <br class="br"> Video of Inouye's excerpt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbFphX5zb8w <br class="br"> Daniel K. Inouye: Reference of excerpt http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Daniel-K.-Inouye <br class="br"> The Mission of Sheltron: Reference http://www.sheltron.us/sheltron/introduction.html
“There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Iced
Jonathan Bailey (1988) British actor
"Jonathan Bailey: Jonathan Bailey: ‘I’m more in awe of musical theatre actors now than ever’" in The Stage https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/jonathan-bailey-im-more-in-awe-of-musical-theatre-actors-now-than-ever (27 October 2016)
Isaac Asimov book The Gods Themselves
Section 1, Chapter 7, p. 56; the book is set in the year 2100.
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
God's Laws
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality