“I think a lot, but I don't say much.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
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“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873) British divine
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 118.
“Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
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Henry Purcell, Edward Taylor (1843) in "Introduction" to, King Arthur: an opera in 5 acts, written by John Dryden. p. 3; Introduction; Cited in: James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch (1852), Fraser's Magazine, Vol. 45, p. 198
Ali Khamenei (1939) Iranian Shiite faqih, Marja' and official independent islamic leader
September 17, 2012 comments made during a graduation ceremony at Imam Khomeini Naval Academy in Noshahr http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/?p=contentShow&id=9873 <br class="br">2012
Wangari Maathai (1940–2011) Kenyan environmental and political activist
Interview in TIME (10 October 2004)
Qasem Soleimani (1957–2020) Iranian senior military officer
In a 2009 interview <br class="br">Quoted in "Soleimani, a General Who Became Iran Icon by Targeting US" https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/02/world/middleeast/ap-ml-iran-qassem-soleimani.html. The Associated Press
“Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value.”
Hermann Hesse book Demian
Source: Demian (1919), p. 146
Context: Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value. You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world and you tried to suppress the second half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
essay "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House", in Sister Outsider
Carter G. Woodson book The Mis-Education of the Negro
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933), Chapter XVIII: The Study of the Negro<!-- p. 131 -->
Context: The chief reason why so many give such a little attention to the background of the Negro is the belief that this study is unimportant. They consider as history only such deeds as those of Mussolini who after building up an efficient war machine with the aid of other Europeans would now use it to murder unarmed and defenseless Africans who have restricted themselves exclusively to attending to their own business. If Mussolini succeeds in crushing Abyssinia he will be recorded in "history" among the Caesars, and volumes written in praise of the conqueror will find their way to the homes and libraries of thousands of miseducated Negroes. The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with this interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street