Dale Carnegie
(1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“There are certain things that are just impressive, aren’t there? One stone can be impressive and the stones around it aren’t. It’s the same with animals. Some, for some reason, are strangely impressive. They just get into you in a strange way. Certain birds obviously have this extra quality that fascinates your attention. Obviously hawks have always done that for me, as a great many others have — not only impressive in themselves but also in that they’ve accumulated an enormous literature making them even more impressive. And crows too. Crows are the central bird in many mythologies. The crow is at every extreme, lives on every piece of land on earth, the most intelligent bird.”
The Paris Review interview
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George W. Bush
(1946) 43rd President of the United States
Speech at the Al Smith Dinner for charity (October 20, 2000), as quoted in "Bush And Gore Do New York" (CBS) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/18/politics/main242210.shtml (October 20, 2000); also in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
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Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
1920s
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
(1803–1862) painter from the Northern Netherlands
(original Dutch, citaat van B.C. Koekkoek:) Het streven naar volmaaktheid in den kunst moet den kunstenaar steeds een edelen pligt zijn, maar hier.. .Hier [bij de Drachenfels] gevoelt hij, meer dan op eenige andere plek, te levendig zijn onvermogen.. .Laat af, schilder! Vergenoeg u met den indruk dien het op uwe ziel maak; tracht, zo ge kunt, dezen rein te bewaren, het zal u leren scheppen..
Source: Herinneringen aan en Mededeelingen van…' (1841), p. 121