Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Source: Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
“A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.”
— David Gemmell, book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 15
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Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist
Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 161
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Reagan reportedly displayed a plaque with this proverbial aphorism on his Oval Office desk (Michael Reagan, The New Reagan Revolution (2010), p. 177). Harry S. Truman is reported to have repeated versions of the aphorism on several occasions. This exact wording was in wide circulation in the 1960s, and the earliest known variant has been attributed to Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893).
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Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author
Source: The Invitation
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)