15 April 1978.
Saturday Review
“If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.”
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871–1940) American writer
The Game of Life and How to Play It https://archive.org/details/gameoflifehowtop00shin (1925), p. 17.
Max Stirner book The False Principle of our Education
Source: The False Principle of our Education (1842), p. 22
Angelo Moreschi (1952–2020) Italian Catholic Bishop
Slowly Calm Returns to Gambella After Fierce Ethnic Clashes. Concern for 16,000 People in Flight Towards Sudan http://www.fides.org/en/news/1553-AFRICA_ETHIOPIA_SLOWLY_CALM_RETURNS_TO_GAMBELLA_AFTER_FIERCE_ETHNIC_CLASHES_CONCERN_FOR_16_000_PEOPLE_IN_FLIGHT_TOWARDS_SUDAN (20 January 2004)
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By Any Means Necessary (1970)
“How we live our everyday lives has to be the main concern of religion.”
Kodo Sawaki (1880–1965) Japanese zen Buddhist monk
Source: The Zen Teachings of Homeless Kodo (Somerville, MA: Wisdom, 2014), p. 64
J. William Fulbright (1905–1995) American politician
Remarks in the Senate, February 2, 1954, Congressional Record, vol. 100, p. 1106.
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Robertson Davies book Tempest-Tost
Source: Tempest-Tost
“The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Henri Bergson (1859–1941) French philosopher
Robertson Davies as quoted in The White Bedouin (2007) by George Potter, p. 241
Misattributed
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 110.
“The industrial peak of a people when its main concern is not yet gain, but rather to gain.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 7.
