Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 270.
“Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: p>Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…</p
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”
Source: The Selfish Gene
“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”
Variant: Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Source: Choke
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (2000), p. 215
"Power and Love" (1926)
Context: p> Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.</p
“Let us achieve great things for those who granted us the privilege to serve.”
Scotland and Northern Ireland (June 18, 2007)
