“People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!”
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
“People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!”
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
Curtis LeMay (1906–1990) American general and politician
From his autobiography, also requoted in Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', p. 596
“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
Context: If you attack stupidity, you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life, and you will make small progress against it.
“No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway…”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[1991Aug7.180856.2854@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
Markiplier (1989) American YouTuber and Internet personality
Video game commentary, Calm Time (November 23, 2013)
“If someone in going to die anyway without an operation, then you have nothing to lose by trying.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 43