Popular quotes
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
1977 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEWsxCrMM1U in Pitkin County Prison, Colorado
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
Source: Quoted in Man's Search for Meaning and attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche.
“Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.”
Variant: You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f**k on.
As quoted in Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times (1972) p. 1153.
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.”
Variant: If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
“One night comes suddenly, I will add your kingdom to my empire.”
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)