“His profession made him rich and he made his profession respectable.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer
Samuel Johnson
About
“Dumbness,” p. 73
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “What After”
“His profession made him rich and he made his profession respectable.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer
Samuel Johnson
About
Jack LaLanne (1914–2011) American exercise instructor
In "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement, LosAngeles Times"
Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) Greek politician
[Bagger, E. S., Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922, http://www.archive.org/download/eminenteuropeans00bagg/eminenteuropeans00bagg.pdf], p. 61
Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion
Part I, Chapter 6, Preparation, p. 69
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 200.
John Angell James (1785–1859) British abolitionist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 116.
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 824.
Daniel Fatiaki (1954) Fijian judge
Address to the Fiji Law Society, Coral Coast, Fiji, 2 July 2005 (excerpts)
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (1972) The Humble Programmer http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html (EWD340). <br class="br">1970s
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 11