John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
September 3
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
" Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community http://pt.scribd.com/doc/2305083/Princeton-Educated-Blacks-and-the-Black-Community", senior thesis, Princeton University (1985), p. 112 <br class="br">1980s
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
September 3
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
“How lazily "xperts" [sic] dismiss what they fail to understand.”
David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 305 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
Catharine A. MacKinnon (1946) American feminist and legal activist
Falsely attributed to Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (First Harvard University Press, 1989), p. 10 in "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means", US House of Representatives, , and spread on the Internet.
Probably based on the quotation opening Chapter 1: "Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism." — Heidi Hartmann and Amy Bridges, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism"
Misattributed
Brian Eno (1948) English musician, composer, record producer and visual artist
September, 1978, Linear notes from the initial American release of Brian Eno's "Music for Airports / Ambient 1", PVC 7908 (AMB 001)
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
All for Education
Source: :http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
Sarah Palin (1964) American politician
Herman ‘Herb’ Cain — the GOP’s Miss Congeniality
The Washington Post
2011-09-28
Alexandra
Petri
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/herman-herb-cain--the-gops-miss-congeniality/2011/09/28/gIQAcAor4K_blog.html
2011-10-07
regarding Herman Cain.
2011
“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”
Edward Abbey book The Monkey Wrench Gang
page 294
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Variant: He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 17: Some Prospects: Cheerful and Otherwise