“Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.”
Elaine Paige (1948) English singer and actress
As quoted in "Portrait of the artist: Elaine Paige, actor" by Laura Barnett in The Guardian (22 May 2007)
“Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners.”
Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch. 17
Context: Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.
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John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 286
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Address to UN General Assembly, quoted in * 2018-09-25
Trump’s Speech at the U.N. Triggers Laughter—and Disbelief
Robin Wright
The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-speech-at-the-un-triggers-laughterand-disbelief
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“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”
Margaret Caroline Anderson (1886–1973) American magazine editor
The Strange Necessity (1969), part 1.
“I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.”
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Equality (1943)
Context: I don't deserve a share in governing a hen-roost, much less a nation. Nor do most people — all the people who believe advertisements, and think in catchwords and spread rumors. The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.