Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Thomas Henry Huxley, in his letter, 3 November 1892. Originally published in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (London: Macmillan & Co., 1913)
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Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Thomas Henry Huxley, in his letter, 3 November 1892. Originally published in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (London: Macmillan & Co., 1913)
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Elizabeth Warren (1949) 28th United States Senator from Massachusetts
Krystal Ball in Warren the reformer v. Sanders the revolutionary, The Hill, https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/450547-warren-the-reformer-v-sanders-the-revolutionary (27 June 2019)
“Pascal’s Wager never appealed to me. It seems logically…shallow.”
Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion
“Perhaps because it posits only two choices,” said Aenea. Somewhere in the desert night, an owl made a short, sharp sound. “Spiritual resurrection and immortality or death and damnation,” she said.
“Those last two aren’t the same thing,” I said.
“No, but perhaps to someone like Blaise Pascal they were. Someone terrified of ‘the eternal silence of these infinite spaces.’”
“A spiritual agoraphobic,” I said.
Aenea laughed. The sound was so sincere and spontaneous that I could not help loving it. Her.
“Religion seems to have always offered that false duality,” she said, setting her cup of tea on a flat stone. “The silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.”
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 10 (p. 166)
Kurt Danziger (1926) German academic
Applied psychology had committed itself to knowledge goals that were unlikely to be advanced by the kind of investigative practice associated with Wundt's laboratory. What it was after was knowledge that could be quickly utilized by agencies of social control so as to make their work more efficient and more rationally defensible.
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Constructing the subject: Historical origins of psychological research. 1994
M. Balamuralikrishna (1930–2016) Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer
Jayalalithaa in: Balamuralikrishna deserves Bharat Ratna: Jayalalithaa http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/26/stories/2005072617030500.htm, Thee Hindu, 26 Jul y 2005.
Robert Spencer (1962) American author and blogger
Why have they “found it hard to counter the appeal of radical ideas promoted by the Islamic State”? To Western leaders such as David Cameron, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic bishops, and a host of others, it is patently obvious that the Qur’an teaches peace and that Islam is a religion of peace. So it ought to be child’s play for these imams in Dagestan to refute the twisted, hijacked version of Islam presented by the Islamic State. Here’s an idea: why doesn’t Barack Obama send Kerry to Dagestan to explain to young Muslims how the Islamic State is misunderstanding and misrepresenting Islam? Or maybe Pope Francis could go there, or he could send some Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic bishop — say, one who knows that Islam is at its core a peaceful religion and who moves actively to silence and ostracize those who say otherwise — to the Islamic State, straight to Raqqa, to explain to the caliph how he is misunderstanding Islam. That would clear up this problem in a hurry. I volunteer to pay the bishop’s airfare. <br class="br"> Jihad Watch - Islamic State on recruitment spree in Russia, “moderate” imams can’t counter the jihadis’ appeal http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/islamic-state-on-recruitment-spree-in-russia-moderate-imams-cant-counter-the-jihadis-appeal (29 October 2015)
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
Interview https://books.google.ca/books?id=umhoFsnYri8C with Martin Amis (1979), published in Visiting Mrs Nabokov : And Other Excursions (1993), this was modified to censor the word "fuck" when quoted in "Roman Polanski: 'Everyone else fancies little girls too'" by Michael Deacon http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100011795/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too/
Greta Garbo (1905–1990) Swedish-American actress
Cecil Beaton, Book of Beauty (1930) <br class="br">Source: http://www.garboforever.com/Beatons_Book_of_Beauty.htm
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
Martin Light in The Quixotic Vision of Sinclair Lewis (1975)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) American journalist
Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1838/09/28/declaration-of-sentiments-adopted-by-the-peace-convention#p3 (28 September 1838)
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) Author, Theosophist
Source: Man in Evolution (1941), Chapter 10
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Five, The American Matrix for Transformation
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, Interview with Yonhap (August 2011)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Writings (1904), Vol. XI, p. 44, to Abigail Adams on July 22, 1804.
1800s
Ho Iat Seng (1957) Chief Executive of Macau
Ho Iat Seng (2020) cited in " Macau confirms second patient infected with Chinese coronavirus https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3047337/macau-confirms-second-patient-infected-chinese-coronavirus?utm_content=article&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3J-0hvJBW78tSA93OtCjZ6icG5WEavRE5UoemIkusUOiK3vuJ1DgNRWZc#Echobox=1579765233" on South China Morning Post, 23 January 2020.
Kenichiro Takaki (1976) Japanese video game producer
"Interview: Senran Kagura Producer Kenichiro Takaki Talks Sexuality, Violence in Games, and Peach Beach Splash" https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2017/07/13/senran-kagura-interview-peach-beach-splash-kenichiro-takaki/, PlayStationLifeStyle.net (13 July 2017).
Billy Hughes (1862–1952) Australian politician, seventh prime minister of Australia
Had she achieved world power, would our fate have differed from that of Russia or Rumania? Would she then have talked about a League of Nations?
Speech in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (26 August 1918), quoted in The Times (27 August 1918), p. 8
Luis Rafael Sánchez (1936) Puerto Rican playwright and novelist
On the lack of ubiquity regarding Puerto Rican writings in “Luis Rafael Sánchez: Counterpoints" https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00096005/00024/14j (Sargasso, 1984)
Raymond Antrobus (1986)
On poetry in “Interview | Raymond Antrobus” https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/interview-poet-raymond-antrobus/ in the London Magazine (2019 Feb 20)
Jim Peebles (1935) Canadian-American astronomer
[Principles of Physical Cosmology, Princeton University Press, 1993, xvii, https://books.google.com/books/about/Principles_of_Physical_Cosmology.html?id=AmlEt6TJ6jAC&pg=PR17]
Alice Meynell (1847–1922) English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist
Their mother does not put "Let's pretend" into the child's mouth; she finds it there. Without it there is no play. But the pretending is always drama and never deception or self-deception.</p>
"V. Fairies", pp. 32–33
Childhood (1913)
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Letter to the Bishop of Salisbury John Douglas (31 July 1791), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789–December 1791 (1967), p. 309
1790s
Jonathan M. Shiff Australian television producer
Source: Interview with Jonathan Shiff https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/screen-news/2018/06-18-international-tv-sales-snapshot-for-2017/part-4-interview-with-jonathan-shiff (18 June 2018)
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
Source: Speech in the Royal Albert Hall, London, in support of the aims of the Disarmament Conference in Geneva (11 July 1931), quoted in The Times (13 July 1931), p. 14
Neil Kinnock (1942) British politician
Later life
Source: ‘Reforming the Labour Party’, Contemporary Record, Volume 8, Issue 3 (1994), p. 540
Lee Soon-ok (1947) activist, former political prisoner
Interview: Soon Ok Lee https://web.archive.org/web/20071012053528/http://asialink.org.uk/magazine/Interview_Soon_Ok_Lee.html (2003)
Michael Haneke (1942) Austrian film director and screenwriter
From "Film as catharsis". Haneke, Michael – "Film als Katharsis": in Austria (in)felix: zum österreichischem Film der 80er Jahre – Bono, Francesco (ed.), 1992. ISBN 3-901272-00-3
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day#column_437 in the House of Commons (7 May 1877) <br class="br">1870s
Ignatius Ayau Kaigama (1958) Nigerian Catholic archbishop
Archbp. Kaigama calls on Gvt and Intl Community to protect Nigerians https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-12/nigeria-kidnappings-scholars-priests-lawlessness-appeal-kaigama.html (18 December 2020)
Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author
Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3. <br class="br">Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)
Mario Draghi (1947) Italian banker and economist
www.governo.it/it/articolo/conferenza-stampa-draghi-cartabia-speranza/17515
July 22, 2021 - As Prime Minister of Italy, regarding the "vaccines" against Sars-Cov-2 / Covid-19
Original: (it) (Italian language) L'appello a non vaccinarsi è un appello a morire sostanzialmente - non ti vaccini, ti ammali, muori - oppure fai morire - non ti vaccini, ti ammali, contagi lui lei muore -, questo è.
Charles Sheffield book Summertide
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 151)
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in the Hippodrome, Darlington (25 May 1929), quoted in The Times (27 May 1929), p. 9
1920s
James D. Watson (1928) American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
Source: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 8, “Personal Genetics: The First of the Rest of Us” (p. 205)
Jorge Rodríguez-Novelo (1955) mexican-born American prelate
Source: Press conference introducing Bishop-Elect Jorge Rodriguez https://denvercatholic.org/denvers-new-auxiliary-bishop-beloved-local-community/ (August 25, 2016)
George Vella (1942) Maltese politician
Source: George Vella (2021) cited in " President urges politicians to 'respect people's intelligence' https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/president-urges-politicians-to-respect-peoples-intelligence.921130" on Times of Malta, 13 December 2021.
“The appeal of any agreement depends on its terms.”
Chris Brummer (1975) law professor
Source: Written testimony before European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, March 17, 2014.
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
Source: On his preference for short stories over novels in “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas in The New Yorker (2013 Dec 5)
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
Source: 1860s, The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
Gilbert Garcera (1959) Roman Catholic archbishop
Source: Philippine archbishop urges prayers, aid amid volcano eruption https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-01/philippines-volcano-eruption-archbishop-gracera-lipa-appeal.html (13 January 2020)
““It’s ok to embrace your sex appeal
And still be an intellectual woman””
Mayra Veronica (1980) model
Source: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/news/a25583/mayra-veronica-latinas-should-be-sexy/