Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
Book I, Chapter 2
The History of Tom Jones (1749)
Source: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (2021) cited in: " State of emergency in Kazakhstan as Tokayev asks CSTO's help https://www.dailysabah.com/world/asia-pacific/state-of-emergency-in-kazakhstan-as-tokayev-asks-cstos-help" in Daily Sabah, 5 January 2021.
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
Book I, Chapter 2
The History of Tom Jones (1749)
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“We are going through a period with no precedent in American history.”
Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
quoted in "The Hand on the Lever" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/21/the-hand-on-the-lever in The New Yorker (July 21, 2014) by Nicholas Lemann <br class="br">2010s
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998 <br class="br">Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio_en.html
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 32, January 13, 1944.
“I don't want to be the best black golfer, I want to be the best golfer, period.”
Tiger Woods (1975) American professional golfer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0971329/bio
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
90th Birthday Reflections (2007)
Context: Communication technologies are necessary, but not sufficient, for us humans to get along with each other. This is why we still have many disputes and conflicts in the world. Technology tools help us to gather and disseminate information, but we also need qualities like tolerance and compassion to achieve greater understanding between peoples and nations.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I hope we've learnt something from the most barbaric century in history — the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalisation…
Malcolm X The Ballot or the Bullet
Source: The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)