John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
This is attributed to Adams in The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858) by Henry Stephens Randall, p. 587
1780s, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)
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Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Thirteen, The Whole- Earth Conspiracy
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
Delusion for a Dragon Slayer (1966)
Context: Empty winds howled down out of the tundras of his soul. This was the charnel house of his finest fantasies. The burial ground of his forever. The garbage dump, the slain meat, the putrefying reality of his dreams and his Heaven.
Griffin stumbled away from her, hearing the shrieks of men needlessly drowned by his vanity, hearing the voiceless accusation of the devil proclaiming cowardice, hearing the orgasm-condemnation of lust that was never love, of brute desire that was never affection, and realizing at last that these were the real substances of his nature, the true faces of his sins, the marks in the ledger of a life he had never led, yet had worshipped silently at an altar of evil.
All these thoughts, as the guardian of Heaven, the keeper at the gate, the claimer of souls, the weigher of balances, advanced on him through the night.
“5718. Who shall keep the Keepers?”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
Genesis 4:9.
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Amy Poehler (1971) American actress
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/05/05bupdate.phtml
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Pope John XXIII (1881–1963) 261st Pope of the Catholic Church
Journal entry on the day Pope Pius XII died (9 October 1958); published in Journal of a Soul (1965)
Context: One of my favorite phrases that brings me great comfort: We are not on earth as museum keepers, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life and to prepare a glorious future. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope!
“Finders were keepers unless title was proven.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
