“Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
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Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
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John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
This has been compared to Horace Walpole's statement: "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
Variant translation: Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second time as farce.
Source: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
“I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Thorstein Veblen book The Theory of the Leisure Class
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 117