“Without a sense of history, our expectations are the product of how we live now.”
Lean Logic, (2016), p. 152, entry on Expectations https://leanlogic.online/expectations/
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“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Foreword, Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices — A New Version (1979)
Speech to the quarterly meeting of the National Production Advisory Council on Industry (28 May 1954), quoted in The Times (29 May 1954), p. 3
Chancellor of the Exchequer
App Intelligence, NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, November 27, 2015 https://www.ttbook.org/interview/app-intelligence
“The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.”
Prime Minister
Source: Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), stating "Hazlitt, in his Wit and Humour, says, 'This is Walpole’s phrase'". Compare: "La reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est qu'une secrète envie de recevoir de plus grands bienfaits" (translated: "The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits"), François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 298.
“The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.”
A reference to the Apple design team, in an interview at the Design Museum (2003)
1960s, Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
Context: Each of us lives in two realms, the "within" and the "without." The within of our lives is somehow found in the realm of ends, the without in the realm of means. The within of our [lives], the bottom — that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion for which at best we live. The without of our lives is that realm of instrumentalities, techniques, mechanisms by which we live. Now the great temptation of life and the great tragedy of life is that so often we allow the without of our lives to absorb the within of our lives. The great tragedy of life is that too often we allow the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live.
“As we have already learned how to sacrifice our own lives, now no one can stop us!”
Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)
“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him”