Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian
Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 5, Historical Change in Civilizations, p. 146
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Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian
Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 5, Historical Change in Civilizations, p. 146
“Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.”
Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 23
Howard Bloom (1943) American publicist and author
Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.4 From Social Synapses to Social Ganglions
“No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Preface to The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), p. ix
“Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Todo o homem que merece ser célebre sabe que não vale a pena sê-lo.
A Celebridade (1915)
“Every good man looks after his friends, and any man who doesn’t isn’t likely to be popular. p. 5”
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) New York State Senator
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft
James Berardinelli (1967) American film critic
Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=573 of Spider-Man 3 (2007). <br class="br">Two star reviews
James Berardinelli (1967) American film critic
Review http://www.reelviews.net/movies/b/batman_begins.html of Batman Begins (2005). <br class="br">Three-and-a-half star reviews