Lindsey Graham (1955) United States Senator from South Carolina
Twitter post http://www.examiner.com/article/lindsey-graham-better-for-a-democrat-to-win-the-white-house-than-donald-trump (August 2015) <br class="br">2010s
As quoted in CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-henry-paulson-op-ed-hillary-clinton-election-2016/ (June 2016) <br class="br">Choose country over party (2016)
Lindsey Graham (1955) United States Senator from South Carolina
Twitter post http://www.examiner.com/article/lindsey-graham-better-for-a-democrat-to-win-the-white-house-than-donald-trump (August 2015) <br class="br">2010s
“Baldwin, Stanley … confesses putting party before country, 169-70; …”
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Index entry, The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“For the present we have journeyed far enough together, and it is time to part.”
James Frazer book The Golden Bough
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 69, Farewell to Nemi.
Ann M. Martin A Corner of the Universe
Source: A Corner of the Universe, ~pg 107; Adam on friendship
“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Letter to Husák
Amory B. Lovins (1947) American physicist
Amory Lovins' eulogy for Donella Meadows http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/996.html
Gabrielle Giffords (1970) American politician
Comment after winning re-election — [Giffords wins re-election to U.S. House; Kelly says voters have spoken, Sierra Vista Herald, Arizona, November 6, 2010, Bill Hess]
Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations
“Schopenhauer as educator” ("Schopenhauer als Erzieher"), § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 127
Untimely Meditations (1876)
Context: In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but he hides it like a bad conscience—why? From fear of his neighbor, who demands conventionality and cloaks himself with it. But what is it that constrains the individual to fear his neighbor, to think and act like a member of a herd, and to have no joy in himself? Modesty, perhaps, in a few rare cases. With the great majority it is indolence, inertia. … Men are even lazier than they are timid, and fear most of all the inconveniences with which unconditional honesty and nakedness would burden them. Artists alone hate this sluggish promenading in borrowed fashions and appropriated opinions and they reveal everyone’s secret bad conscience, the law that every man is a unique miracle.
“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”
William Faulkner book Light in August
Source: Light in August