“A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.”
Book I, Ch. 4
The Professor's House (1925)
“Abusing the prosperous in order to curry the favor of the envious, is an old game that still works better than it should.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p199.
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Robert Aumann
(1930) Israeli-American mathematician
From an article on Israel Hayom http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=23811
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter I, Section 3, pg. 15
Orson Scott Card
(1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 18.
John D. Carmack
(1970) American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman
Quoted in Seth Schiesel, Microsoft Unveils Games For Its New Xbox 360 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3DF1E30F935A35753C1A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all The New York Times (2005-10-06)
Amos Oz
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"The Great Disruption", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Jun 1999, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545kh
“I can not make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization”
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Second State of the Union address (1862)
Context: As to the second article, I think it would be impracticable to return to bondage the class of persons therein contemplated. Some of them, doubtless, in the property sense belong to loyal owners, and hence provision is made in this article for compensating such. The third article relates to the future of the freed people. It does not oblige, but merely authorizes Congress to aid in colonizing such as may consent. This ought not to be regarded as objectionable on the one hand or on the other, insomuch as it comes to nothing unless by the mutual consent of the people to be deported and the American voters, through their representatives in Congress. I can not make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization; and yet I wish to say there is an objection urged against free colored persons remaining in the country which is largely imaginary, if not sometimes malicious.
Alan O. Ebenstein
(1959) American political scientist, educator and author
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