“If a man can take any pleasure in recalling the thought of kindnesses done.”
Siqua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas
Est homini.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LXXVI, lines 1–2
Carmina
Kremlin RU http://web.archive.org/web/20061013001158/http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/06/27/2040_type82912type82913type82914_107818.shtml (27 June 2006) <br class="br">2006- 2010
“If a man can take any pleasure in recalling the thought of kindnesses done.”
Siqua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas
Est homini.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LXXVI, lines 1–2
Carmina
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
Letter to Lord Panmure (11 October 1857), quoted in Sir George Douglas and Sir George Dalhousie Ramsay (eds.), The Panmure Papers (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908), pp. 446-447.
1850s
Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: The Apophenion (2008), p. 62
Context: Does the universe as a whole exhibit any kind of consciousness that we can interact with? Does the universe seek to evolve greater complexity and more sophisticated consciousness? Could it use some help from us in this? Do all species seem worth preserving regardless of their economic value to us? Does some mysterious circularity in time connect consciousness and the very existence of the universe?
Most Neo-Pantheists like to think so.
Derek Prince (1915–2003) British missionary
“Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.”
Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) American writer
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (1948)
“Crowd mentality is a kind of simultaneous psychosis which may take possession of any group.”
Everett Dean Martin (1880–1941)
Source: Farewell to Revolution (1935), p. xi, Foreword
“Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.”
Jonathan Swift book A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
Judith Krug (1940–2009) librarian and freedom of speech proponent
"Easy Access?" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec97/library_8-7.html by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (August 7, 1997)