
First Step 2 Forever: My Story (2010), p. 177
A collection of quotes on the topic of tenth, time, timing, people.
First Step 2 Forever: My Story (2010), p. 177
Baltimore Evening Sun (12 February 1923)
1920s
Context: The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
[Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages, https://books.google.com/books?id=yB1WwURwBUQC&pg=PA14, 21 March 2009, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 978-0-596-55550-4, 14]
La mer est tout! Elle couvre les sept dixièmes du globe terrestre. Son souffle est pur et sain. C'est l'immense désert où l'homme n'est jamais seul, car il sent frémir la vie à ses côtés. La mer n'est que le véhicule d'une surnaturelle et prodigieuse existence; elle n'est que mouvement et amour.
Part I, ch. X: The Man of the Seas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 29.
The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character
1920s
“Contracts,” Martin said viciously, “are a lot more enforceable than love.”
Source: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 16 (pp. 136-137)
1860s, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
1860s, A Short Autobiography (1860)
Context: Abraham now thinks that the aggregate of all his schooling did not amount to one year. He was never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside of a college or academy building till since he had a law license. What he has in the way of education he has picked up. After he was twenty-three and had separated from his father, he studied English grammar — imperfectly of course, but so as to speak and write as well as he now does. He studied and nearly mastered the six books of Euclid since he was a member of Congress. He regrets his want of education, and does what he can to supply the want. In his tenth year he was kicked by a horse, and apparently killed for a time.<!--pp. 9-10
Go Rin No Sho (1645), Introduction
Context: When I reached thirty I looked back on my past. The previous victories were not due to my having mastered strategy. Perhaps it was natural ability, or the order of heaven, or that other schools' strategy was inferior. After that I studied morning and evening searching for the principle, and came to realise the Way of strategy when I was fifty.
Since then I have lived without following any particular Way. Thus with the virtue of strategy I practise many arts and abilities — all things with no teacher. To write this book I did not use the law of Buddha or the teachings of Confucius, neither old war chronicles nor books on martial tactics. I take up my brush to explain the true spirit of this Ichi school as it is mirrored in the Way of heaven and Kwannon. The time is the night of the tenth day of the tenth month, at the hour of the tiger.
1850s, Autobiographical Sketch Written for Jesse W. Fell (1859), p.32
"Observations on Mental Education" (May 6, 1854) a lecture before His Royal Highness The Prince Consort and the Members of the Royal Institution, Lectures on Education (1855) as quoted in Faraday's Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (1859) p. 486. https://books.google.com/books?id=AUwNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA486
Attributed at an unspecified date when Lincoln was a young lawyer, apparently first reported in the Prairie Farmer (March 13, 1886), Volume 58, p. 176. The quote, taken as a whole, has been explained to mean that Lincoln was giving a negative character reference, implying that the subject of that reference was not financially stable, and prone to let details slip.
Posthumous attributions
Section 2, paragraph 25.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
1880s
Source: Ibid, January 1886 https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks
Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.”
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
"Untitled Notes" (1981), p. 374
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
[Seismology and plate tectonics, Cambridge, UK; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990, http://books.google.com/books?id=tZRxPzwoChIC&pg=PA4] (pp. 4–5)
Seismology and Plate Tectonics (1990)
"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
Source: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 163.
An Appeal to the Young (1880)
First Lecture, The Definition of Probability, p. 26
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)
Source: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 5, The Minors, p. 111.
Letter to The Times (13 March 1876), p. 8, after Queen Victoria was given the title "Empress of India".
1870s
Speaking at the Republican National Convention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx94428MYcc (18 July 2016)
Public Statements
That being the case, he's blind.
Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1780 of Halloween II (2009).
Half-star reviews
About the tyranny of the majority.
Who's for destroying democracy? (14-02-2016)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
, Marcellin Berthelot, Ch. Em. Ruelle, "The Alchemists of Egypt and Greece," Art. VIII. (Jan. 1893) in The Edinburgh Review (Jan.-Apr. 1893) Vol. 177, pp. 208-209. https://books.google.com/books?id=GuvRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA208
From Basics of space flight, Ludwik Marian Celnikier, 1993, ISBN 2863321323, quoting "Discouraging Words", Spaceflight, 34, 225 (1992).
Under the Microscope (1872)
“Dialogue in Hell:
Tenth Dialogue”
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005)
Variant: Dialogue in Hell:
Fourth Dialogue
Source: National Identity (1991), p. 30: About Ethnic Change, Dissolution and Survival
“Our Optimism and Faith” http://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1945/02/04.htm Liberation magazine, page 3 (United Committee of South- Slavonic Americans, 1945)
Writings
Individual Liberty (1926), Anarchism and Crime
Writing as his character, "th' Hon. Ex.-Editur Cale Fluhart." as quoted in The American Humorist : Conscience of the Twentieth Century (1964) by Norris W. Yeats, p. 107.
Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 23.
Source: An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (1902), Ch. 12 : Germany and Italy in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, p. 157
The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor
The Visitor (2002)
Indian Muslims: Who Are They (1990)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Speaking at a meeting of the American Economic Association, as quoted by Walter Block in "Milton Friedman RIP" in Mises Daily (16 November 2006) http://mises.org/story/2393
2000s, National Identity in France and the United States (2003)
Letter to King Leopold I of Belgium (15 November 1863), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), p. 569.
1860s
"Lord Bacon", (1837) in Essays 2:183
Attributed
Abe Martin's Primer : The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors (1914).
sends fist towards the camera
My Response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrnJAy-rfyA (16 February 2017)
2017, My Response (February)
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.”
Cited in: Colleen Zuck etal. (2002) Daily Word for Families, p. 167
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 446-450.
General Quotes
"Why UFC’s Toughest Fighters Are Going Vegan" https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/nate-diaz-and-other-vegan-ufc-fighters-w199323/, interview with Men's Journal (March 2016)
Cheers.
Speech to the Cobden Club denouncing the Brussels sugar convention (28 November 1902), quoted in The Times (29 November 1902), p. 12
Leader of the Opposition
"Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?", (1917), The Lenin Anthology
1910s
Talk titled The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 26, 2007 http://www.archive.org/details/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007text.
June 10, 1944
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)
Source: The Physics Of Baseball (Second Edition - Revised), Chapter 4, Running, Fielding, And Throwing, p. 57
La femme est une propriété que l'on acquiert par contrat, elle est mobilière, car la possession vaut titre; enfin, la femme n'est, à proprement parler, qu'une annexe de l'homme; or, tranchez, coupez, rognez, elle vous appartient à tous les titres.
Part II, Meditation Number XII: The Hygiene of Marriage.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Source: Interest and Inflation Free Money (1995), Chapter Three, Who Would Profit From a New Monetary System?, p. 67
Source: Time and Again (1970), Chapter 17 (p. 252)
Calling Reggie Miller's game-winner in Game 4 of the 1998 Eastern Conference Finals.
Letter to Cobden (24 December 1853), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), pp. 229-230.
1850s
W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1888), Courier Dover, 1960, p. 164
" Whodunit? Who Meddled With Out Democracy? https://www.unz.com/imercer/whodunit-who-meddled-with-our-democracy/" February 8, 2018, The Unz Review.
2010s, 2018
The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008)
Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)
2010s, Liberty University Speech (14 September 2015)
[Parker, Jeff, http://www.hypertxt.com/parker/clips/jawbreak/jawbrk4.html, "Interview with Blake Schumacher", p. 4, Jawbreaker http://www.hypertxt.com/parker/clips/jawbreak/jawbrk.html, Hypertext.com, 2006-09-06]
Interviews
"Haiku and Englyn" in The Toronto Daily Star (4 April 1959), republished in The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (1979) edited by Judith Skelton Grant, p. 241.
“He lives to build, not boast, a generous race;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.”
The Bastard (1728), line 7, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).