Walther Funk (1890–1960) German economist and politician
To Leon Goldensohn, April 7, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 83
The MGM Stock Company: the Golden Era, James Robert Parish & Ronald L. Bowers (1974), Page 295
Walther Funk (1890–1960) German economist and politician
To Leon Goldensohn, April 7, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 83
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) former Palestinian President, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
In his speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel" at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 1996 as quoted in “The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History”, by Andrew Bostom, Prometheus Books, c.2008, pg. 682.
1990s
“The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
"Engineering and Conservation" [1938]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 254.
1930s
“She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.”
George Ade (1866–1944) American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright
Fables
“Up, up, up is where sopranos are. And tenors. Without that, it's not very exciting.”
Leontyne Price (1927) American soprano
From "NEA Opera Honors: Interview with Leontyne Price" for the National Endowment for the Arts on June 4, 2010.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqVu_wlxTzM&t=1565s
Hans Freudenthal (1905–1990) Dutch mathematician
Source: Mathematics as an Educational Task (1973), p. 403
Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle
Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Context: When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.... I must be scientific.
“Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto,
Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 32.
Beppo (1818)