“While we cannot add days to your life, we can add life to your days”
Cora Coralina (1889–1985) Brazilian writer and poet.
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“As many languages as you know, so many separate individuals you are worth.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor
Variant: The more languages you know, the more human you become. <br class="br">Source: John G. Robertson "Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements" https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=RFqlPtTSB2kC&pg=PA250&lpg=PA250&dq=Quot+linguas+calles,+tot+homines+vales.&source=bl&ots=EtA4qFqwbn&sig=C9citjpkEkL6ZjovF9_4_AQ1cCw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji4ICXl5XRAhULESwKHRp9C6cQ6AEILjAC#v=onepage&q=Quot%20linguas%20calles%2C%20tot%20homines%20vales.&f=false: "Attributed to Charles V"
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)
Context: I do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don't know why. We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
“The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007) Polish historian
A Warsaw Diary, in Granta [magazine], no. 15 (Cambridge, England, 1985)
Glenn Gould (1932–1982) Canadian pianist
Attributed to Glenn Gould (1962) in Payzant (Glenn Gould: Music and Mind), p. 64
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee (podcast/audio plus transcript) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206txt.html <br class="br">Context: Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.
David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist
Opening narration
The Life of Birds (1998)
“Therefore we demand as a fundamental law of the state: …”
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) German economist and politician
The obligation for interest is replaced by the obligation to repay the principal; thus after 20 or 25 years, depending on the interest-rate, the lent capital is repaid and the debt retired. ...
Through intensive enlightenment of the people, it is to be made clear to the people that money is and should be nothing other than a voucher for completed labor; that while every highly developed economy of course has need of money as a medium of exchange, the function of money also ends with that, and in no case should money be lent a supramundane power to grow of itself by means of interest, at the expense of productive labor.
"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
Context: You should fight to be among the best in school. The very best in every sense and you already know what that means; study and revolutionary attitude. In other words: good conduct, seriousness, love for the revolution, comradeship. I was not that way at your age but I lived in a different society, where man was an enemy of man. Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.