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Inside cover of "The Grateful Dead" LP (1967)

Femail Magazine June 2008. Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space http://www.femail.com.au/vanna-bonta-talks-sex-in-space.htm

An Irregular Ode; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Memories and Impressions of Helena Modjeska http://books.google.com/books?id=z5AXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+is+never+right+to+be+more+Catholic+than+the+Pope%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (1910)

The Duty of a Husband and Wife (17 March 1539), No. 4408. LW 54:337 http://books.google.com/books?id=zsbXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&dq=%22penny+saved+is+better+than+a+penny+earned%22&lr=
Table Talk (1569)

Il y a dans la jalousie plus d'amour-propre que d'amour.
Maxim 324.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

This seems to be derived from a statement attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, and which she regularly used in her public addresses: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

Walden (1854)
Context: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.<!--pp.366-367

I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
As quoted in An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations (1808) by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The present day teems with new discoveries in Fact, which are greater, as regards the soul and prospect of men, than all the disquisitions and quiddities of the Schoolmen. A few fossil bones in clay and limestone have opened a greater vista back into time than the Indian imagination ventured upon for its Gods: and every day turns up something new. This vision of Time must not only wither the poet's hope of immortality, it is in itself more wonderful than all the conceptions of Dante and Milton.
Letter to Edward Byles Cowell, quoted in The Life of Edward FitzGerald, Translator of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyán (1947) by Alfred McKinley Terhune, p. 146.

"Switzerland" in An Atheist Around The World
Context: Human problems are more psychological than materialistic. This is not only true of individual behaviour, but in mass action also. A suggestion from a leader sparks off a revolution. Material circumstances help mass action, but in themselves do not raise action. The conditions of untouchability and of poverty in India, especially at the time of famine in Bengal in 1945-46, when thousands of destitute died of sheer hunger in the streets of Calcutta City, are such as would provoke an immediate revolution. But the revolution does not come off in the Indian masses. The reason is clear. In India there are revolutionary circumstances, but there is no revolutionary consciousness among the people. If the revolutionary consciousness is present, people would revolt against any injustice on the slightest pretext. And consciousness is essentially psychological.

May 1, 2020 statement https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/justin-trudeau-announces-canada-banning-assault-style-weapons-n1198046 announcing the immediate ban of more than 1,500 models and variants of military-grade assault-style firearms in the wake of the 2020 attacks in Nova Scotia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks, the deadliest mass shooting spree in Canadian history.
The phrase "thoughts and prayers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_and_prayers has received criticism as an empty or disingenuous gesture of condolences in the aftermath of such preventable incidents as mass shootings (particularly in the United States), in lieu of concrete actions or proposals to reduce or eliminate the likelihood of these incidents occurring again.

prevale.net
Original: (it) La pazienza ha più potere della forza.

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

Peleus, Frag. 445.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)