“For easier 'tis to learn and recollect
What moves derision than what claims respect.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Book II, epistle i, p. 160
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Epistles
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“Let’s try and create scenes that are about something… About something deeper than this ashtray.”
Martin de Maat (1949–2001) American theatre director
As quoted in "Community Mourns the Death of Martin de Maat" by Lisa Lewis (2 March 2001) http://www.performink.com/Archives/obituaries/DemaatMartin3201.html
“Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.”
Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion
Foreword, p. XIV https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped/dp/1610396200/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= <br class="br">2010s, Winter is Coming (2015)
“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
“Trying to ignore secondarily meaningful things gives them more meaning than they deserve.”
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
30 January 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/8421130524 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
“Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Void and Compensation (1947), p. 200
“The fastest fighter I ever saw. Hell. Greb is faster than Benny Leonard”
Harry Greb (1894–1926) American boxer
lightweight champion
Heavyweight champion Jack Dempseyhttp://coxscorner.tripod.com/greb.html
“In the future, education will make a far wider use of psychology than heretofore. (12 - 84).”
Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer
Source: Education in the New Age (1954), p. 84<br> The Great Invocation (1945) http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/the_great_invocation__1<br> Adapted/alternative version of the Great Invocation http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/the_great_invocation__1/adapted_version_of_the_great_invocation
“What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.”
Alex Trebek (1940) Canadian-American television personality
Justinson, C.H.L. Down and Dirty, pg 32.
“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”
Rowland Hill (preacher) (1744–1833) British preacher
P. 217.
Theodor W. Adorno book Minima Moralia
Zartheit zwischen Menschen ist nichts anderes als das Bewußtsein von der Möglichkeit zweckfreier Beziehungen.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Young India (15 December 1921)
1920s
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
0 min 45 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Encyclopedia Galactica [Episode 12]
“Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
Albert Einstein, statement sent to the Boston journal The Jewish Advocate on 1931-10-19 on the occasion of Justice Brandeis' seventy-fifth birthday, quoted in Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Albert Einstein: The Human Side (Princeton University Press, 1981), ISBN 0-691-02368-9, p. 85.
Marguerite Yourcenar book Memoirs of Hadrian
Il y a plus d'une sagesse, et toutes sont nécessaires au monde; il n'est pas mauvais qu'elles alternent.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 270
“There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.”
Ludwig von Mises book Socialism
Socialism (1922), Epilogue (1947)