Eric Trist (1909–1993) British scientist
Source: The evolution of socio-technical systems, (1981), p. 9
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“First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.”
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Ibid.
Essays and reviews, From the Land of Shadows (1982)
“I'd rather have a German division in front of me, than a French one behind.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Misattributed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger on Fox News. Patton commanded French troops, the 2nd Armored Division commanded by Philippe Leclerc, integrated in the Third Army, and had rocky but friendly relations with the French general. For instance, on August, 15 1944 Patton wrote in his diary: "Leclerc came in very much excited. He said, among other things, that if he were not allowed to advance on Paris, he would resign. I told him in my best French that he was a baby and said I had left him in the most dangerous place on the front. We parted friends"
Misattributed
“Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) Irish journalist and rogue
Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 164.
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
No. 106 (23 March 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)
“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
The Paris Review interview (1984)
“Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?”
Patrick Modiano (1945) French writer
P 86
The Search Warrant (2000)
“One of his hobbies was to wait for the American Shakespeare — a hobby more patient than angling.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
'The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Secret Garden
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.”
E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer
"The Practical Farmer" http://books.google.com/books?id=njRHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+good+farmer+is+nothing+more+nor+less+than+a+handy+man+with+a+sense+of+humus%22&pg=PA218#v=onepage ( October 1940 http://books.google.com/books?id=SvAvAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+good+farmer+is+nothing+more+nor+less+than+a+handy+man+with+a+sense+of%22&pg=PA555#v=onepage) <br class="br">One Man's Meat (1942)
“Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy when they love?”
Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent
Act iii, scene 1.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”
Tim Powers book Declare
Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)
“Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.”
Jacques Ellul book Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Vintage, p. 38
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 190.
“Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.”
Lu Xun (1881–1936) Chinese novelist and essayist
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"The Epigrams of Lusin"
“I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.”
Anderson Cooper (1967) journalist and author
CNN http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/anderson-cooper-andy-dean-trump (17 September 2015).
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/
Donald Judd (1928–1994) artist
Source: 1960s, "Specific Objects," 1965, p. 75; Cited in: Diane Waldman. Carl Andre https://archive.org/stream/carlandre00wald#page/6/mode/1up. Published 1970 by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. p. 6
“In fact, there’s probably only one thing worse than not being able to understand a person.”
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
“What’s that?” asked Nimrod.
“Being able to understand him completely.”
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower" p. 76 (originally published in Author’s Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)