
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
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95 poems (1958)
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
Sir George Grierson noted this when Kabir and Dadu were Tulsidas’s contemporaries when the population of northern India at the time was about ninety million quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", P.37
To B. A. Hinsdale in 1874, as quoted in The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield: 1831-1877 (1925) by Theodore Clarke Smith, p. 517
1870s
God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: "It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? That lemming drive you're talking about is there — but there's another kind of drive, another kind of force that's working against it. Or else there wouldn't still be any people and there wouldn't be the words to have this conversation and—" She paused, looked down at herself. "And I wouldn't be here to say them."
“He that owns himself has lost nothing. But how few men are blessed with ownership of self!”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLII: On Values
“Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.”
Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club (2010), p. 202