“It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.”
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Groucho Marx117
American comedian 1890–1977Related quotes
Indro Montanelli book Storia d'Italia
Storia d'Italia, volume l'Italia degli anni di fango.
2000s - 2010s
Derek Jeter (1974) American baseball player
Reported in Tom Verducci, " Derek Jeter: In his own words http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/sportsman/2009/11/30/jeter.interview/index.html", Sports Illustrated (November 30, 2009). <br class="br">2000s, 2009
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
Remarks to Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev during the Kitchen Debate (24 July 1959)
1950s
“Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 276
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Saber não ter ilusões é absolutamente necessário para se poder ter sonhos.
“Unhappiness is apt to characterize the period of order-making and struggle.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Lecture VIII, "The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Context: Now in all of us, however constituted, but to a degree the greater in proportion as we are intense and sensitive and subject to diversified temptations, and to the greatest possible degree if we are decidedly psychopathic, does the normal evolution of character chiefly consist in the straightening out and unifying of the inner self. The higher and the lower feelings, the useful and the erring impulses, begin by being a comparative chaos within us — they must end by forming a stable system of functions in right subordination. Unhappiness is apt to characterize the period of order-making and struggle.
Herm Edwards (1954) American football player, coach and analyst
Edwards in a press conference after losing six consecutive games. <br class="br">With Kansas City <br class="br">Source: December 13, 2007, http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2007/12/11/herm_edwards_press_conference__1211/, Kansas City Chiefs - Herm Edwards Press Conference - 12/11, 13 December 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20071213163651/http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2007/12/11/herm_edwards_press_conference__1211/,
“Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate.”
Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher
P 124
The Piano Teacher (1988)
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher
J'ay marqué plus d'une fois, que je tenois l'espace pour quelque chose de purement relatif, comme le temps; pour un ordre des coëxistences, comme le temps est un ordre des successions. <br class="br"> Third letter http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~berciu/PHILIP/TEACHING/PHYS340/EXTRA/FILES/Leibniz-ClarkeA.pdf to Samuel Clarke, February 25, 1716