John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1962, Rice University speech
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Armageddon
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1962, Rice University speech
David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (BBC Horizon, 2009)
David Graeber (1961) American anthropologist and anarchist
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Five, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Moral Relations", p. 126
Ralph Klein (1942–2013) Canadian politician
Source: [Will The Real Alberta Please Stand Up, University of Alberta Press, 2010, 312, Geo Takach]
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
or subtle things
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer
Quoted in [Buchwald, Laura, 2003, http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/sharrison.html, "Authors: Sabrina Ward Harrison", The Modern Library, RandomHouse.com, 2007-09-21]
“You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Also quoted as "Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms." <br class="br">Letter to G. F. Fyodorov, August 9, 1918, Collected Works, vol. 35. 35 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/cw/pdf/lenin-cw-vol-35.pdf <br class="br">1910s
Richard Feynman book The Character of Physical Law
Source: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 3, “The Great Conservation Principles,” p. 75
“I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.”
Christopher Isherwood book Christopher and His Kind
Source: Christopher and His Kind (1976), p. 306