“Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.”
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
"Exams work because they're scary", Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2005, p. 22.
2000s, 2005
Source: Bishops Want Catholic Baby Boom To Halt Slide In Kerala Christian Community https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/2007/09/14/bishops-want-catholic-baby-boom-to-halt-slide-in-kerala-christian-community&post_id=6428 (September 13, 2007)
“Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.”
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
"Exams work because they're scary", Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2005, p. 22.
2000s, 2005
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Robert Kocharyan (1954) second President of Armenia
Excerpts from 2021 keynote speech on formation of 'Armenia' alliance
Peter Singer book Animal Liberation
Source: Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 1: All Animals Are Equal
Joseph Shaw (academic) (1971) British academic
Interview with Dr. Joseph Shaw https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/5036-interview-with-dr-joseph-shaw (August 28, 2020)