Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief
As quoted in To Be Just Is to Love : Homilies for a Church Renewing (2001) by Walter J. Burghardt, p. 214
Session 491, Page 335
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9
Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief
As quoted in To Be Just Is to Love : Homilies for a Church Renewing (2001) by Walter J. Burghardt, p. 214
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
address to LULAC (July 1, 2005)
2007, 2008
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Shudder; for if you do not, you are implicated in it.
Source: 1850s, Attack upon Christendom (1855), p. 122
Jack Valenti (1921–2007) President of the MPAA
Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)
Context: We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. And it is like a great tidal wave just off the shore. This video cassette recorder and the blank tape threaten profoundly the life-sustaining protection, I guess you would call it, on which copyright owners depend, on which film people depend, on which television people depend and it is called copyright.
Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist
Source: Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism, (2015), p. 21
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author
Source: The Invitation
“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The House of the Seven Gables
Preface
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Context: Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral, — the truth, namely, that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief; and he would feel it a singular gratification if this romance might effectually convince mankind — or, indeed, any one man — of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate, on the heads of an unfortunate posterity, thereby to maim and crush them, until the accumulated mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms. In good faith, however, he is not sufficiently imaginative to flatter himself with the slightest hope of this kind. When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtile process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod, — or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly, — thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude. A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first.
Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
December 2007 http://www.startribune.com/nation/12598281.html, in an interview Sunday on ABC's This Week. Greenspan suggested the government should boost support to homeowners facing the prospect of losing their homes because their mortgages are resetting to higher interest rates. <br class="br">2000s