Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Source: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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Yohji Yamamoto (1943) Japanese fashion designer
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Interview with Barbara Walters (7 Dec. 2011) on the military escalation of the Syrian conflict
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Interview with Barbara Walters (7 Dec. 2011) on the military escalation of the Syrian conflict
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
“Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.”
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author
"Auctorial Induction"
The Certain Hour (1916)
Context: We are talking over telephones, as Shakespeare could not talk;
We are riding out in motor-cars where Homer had to walk;
And pictures Dante labored on of mediaeval Hell
The nearest cinematograph paints quicker, and as well. But ye copy, copy always; — and ye marvel when ye find
This new beauty, that new meaning, — while a model stands behind,
Waiting, young and fair as ever, till some singer turn and trace
Something of the deathless wonder of life lived in any place.
Hey, my masters, turn from piddling to the turmoil and the strife!
Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.
