Ibn Khaldun book Muqaddimah
Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 123, Princeton University Press, 1958.
Muqaddimah (1377)
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Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963) Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist
November 1957 - Told to Joseph G. Martin, then Aide-de-Camp to Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Hooks, as Lt. Martin escorted Dr. von Kármán from New York City to lead a secret symposium on space flight in Cloudcroft, NM. Sputnik had been launched a month before and every branch of the US military had a separate space program and were desperately trying to get off a successful launch.
The Life and Times of Joe Gordon (To the Best of My Recollection) by Joseph G. Martin (self published, 2007)
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
Context: Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I could completely imagine his suffering and I replied that five thousand Chinamen were something I could not imagine and so it was not interesting.
One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine.
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
Reaction to the Tsar's invitation (August 1898) to the Hague Conference of 1899, quoted in Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War (London: Pimlico, 2004), pp. 429-430
1890s
Emmy Noether (1882–1935) German mathematician
Letter to Helmut Hasse (1931) as quoted in Auguste Dick, Emmy Noether, 1882-1935 (1981) Tr. H. I. Blocher, p. 61.
“For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.”
Parmenides (-501–-470 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
Frag. B 3, quoted by Plotinus, Enneads V, i.8
“Be honest.
Be kind.
Be honorable.
Work hard.
And always be awesome.”
Wil Wheaton (1972) American actor and writer
Christine de Pizan book The Book of the City of Ladies
Cellui ou celle en qui plus a vertus est le plus hault, ne la haulteur ou abbaisement des gens ne gist mie es corps selon le sexe mais en la perfeccion des meurs et des vertus.
Part I, ch. 9, p. 24.
Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (c. 1405)
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies
“There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
As quoted in "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill in Review of the News (6 October 1971) http://www.pattonhq.com/prayer.html <br class="br">Context: There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.
“If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right”
John Lydon book Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Source: Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
“Don't let it end like this tell them i said something”
Pancho Villa (1878–1923) Mexican revolutionary
“Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.”
Pancho Villa (1878–1923) Mexican revolutionary
As quoted in Pancho Villa: Rebel of the Mexican Revolution (2006) by Mary Englar
“I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight..”
Pancho Villa (1878–1923) Mexican revolutionary
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
Context: Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.
“Yes I eat cow I am not proud.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Mr Moustache.
Song lyrics, Bleach (1989)
“There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge.)”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
1991-08-27 at Bremen, Germany
Stage banter