
“I would rather lose all my lands and a hundred lives than be king over heretics.”
David A. Pharies, A brief history of the Spanish language (2007), p. 147.
“April: Sky Dance”, p. 34.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "April: Come High Water," "April: Draba," "April: Bur Oak," & "April:Sky Dance"
“I would rather lose all my lands and a hundred lives than be king over heretics.”
David A. Pharies, A brief history of the Spanish language (2007), p. 147.
Collected Works, Vol. 41.
Collected Works
" The Gift Outright http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/994.html" (1941)
1940s
Speech in Newcastle (9 October 1909), quoted in The Times (11 October 1909), p. 6
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The visit of King Albert I to the Belgian Congo in 1928. Between propaganda and reality. https://www.congoforum.be/Upldocs/Het_bezoek_van_koning_Albert_I_aan_Belgi.compressed.pdf In July 1933, in a noted speech to the Senate, Leopold made a plea for the development of paysannat or indigenous agriculture in then Belgian Congo.
“Games are enactments, and the act of playing is an illusion of the illusion of the reality”
Make Your Own 3D Illusions (2014).
Context: We long for a technological world, while keeping the natural aspect of our environment; we want the progress, while maintaining the traditions; we want organization while preserving individual freedom; we produce at a large scale while looking for unique products; we want clearness in our relationships, while we like to play with the ambiguity; we wish everlasting happiness while seeking incomparable magic moments… In reality, from all these contradictions, we are looking for only one thing: ASTONISHMENT. We would life to astonish us every day! That’s why we all, human beings, love playing, because games are synonymous of risk and astonishment. Games are enactments, and the act of playing is an illusion of the illusion of the reality.
“This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 103.
Source: The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India (1992), Chapter 1
Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation (1753)