Quotes about title page 6
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
to John Cena
February 18, 2013
WWE Raw
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician
As quoted by Wenceslao Retana in Gregorio F. Zaide's "Epifanio de los Santos, his collection and library" (The Tribune Magazine. p. 4).
BALIW
Jopie Huisman (1922–2000) Dutch painter
translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
version in original Dutch / citaat van Jopie Huisman, in het Nederlands: Maandenlang heb ik aan dit schilderij [titel: 'De steenkruiwagen van C. Adema', 1977] gewerkt en die putemmer bijvoorbeeld op de kruiwagen, heb ik wel twintig keer geschilderd en is precies zo opgebouwd als de natuur hem gevormd heeft. Ik wil het mezelf steeds moeilijker maken. Zo kan het wel – bestaat niet voor mij. Verdieping, daar gaat het om. Ik wil nog eens een keer een schilderijtje zo maken, dat ik haast niet meer kan zien dat het geschilderd is, dat het er gewoon is, zo, zonder meer. Iets heel eenvoudigs.
Source: Jopie Huisman', 1981, p. 80
Stephen Jay Gould book Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
chosen to illustrate this paramount principle of history
Source: Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (1987), p. 84
“I can't accept the title, to win it this way doesn't mean anything to me.”
Max Schmeling (1905–2005) German boxer
After winning the world heavyweight title because Jack Sharkey been disqualified. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fight/peopleevents/p_schmeling.html
Fernando Alonso (1981) Spanish racing driver
About leaving the Renault team http://www.planet-f1.com/News/Story_Page/0,15909,3210_3463_1626080,00.html (October 23, 2006)
Henry Pemberton (1694–1771) British doctor
Republished in: Stephen Peter Rigaud (1838) Historical Essay on the First Publication of Sir Newton's Principia http://books.google.com/books?id=uvMGAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA49. p. 519 <br class="br">Preface to View of Newton's Philosophy, (1728)
John Joseph Griffin (1802–1877) English chemist and publisher
Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) "The Romance of Chemistry" p232
Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Waarde Heer Verloren. Heden zend ik U eene teekening voor Uwe kunstbeschouwingen. Gaarne had ik méér gedaan, maar heb aan alle kanten vraag naar teekeningen en zit daarenboven nog tot over de ooren in schilderijen naar studies der laatste reis. Ik hoop dat men de teekening redelijk goed zal vinden.- De prijs is 150 guldens.- Ik weet niet of gij een titel behoeft, noem het dan maar eenvoudig, 'Bij een Drenthsch dorp'. <br class="br">Quote from a letter of W. Roelofs 2 Oct. 1861, to art-collector/dealer P. verloren van Themaat in Utrecht, taken from: an extract in the Dutch Archive R.K.D., The Hague https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/281 <br class="br">1860's
Larry Hogan (1956) American politician
" Declaration of Emergency https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/EO01.01.2015.16.pdf" (27 April 2015).
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
'Kin beyond Sea', The North American Review Vol. 127, No. 264 (Sep. - Oct., 1878), p. 180.
1870s
Bernard Membe (1953) Tanzanian politician
When asked if he would address Robert Mugabe as president; quoted in "Africa urged to act on Zimbabwe," http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7480584.stm BBC News (2008-06-30)
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Interrupting Jeff Hardy's promo from the top of a ladder. August 21, 2009.
Friday Night SmackDown
Michael Simms (software developer) (1973) Video game programmer
Quoted in Robin Heggelund Hansen, "Porting games to Linux" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=203&num=1 hardware.no (2009-03-10)
Saul Bass (1920–1996) American graphic designer and filmmaker
Haskins, Pamela (Autumn 1996). "Saul, Can You Make Me a Title? Interview with Saul Bass". Film Quarterly. pp. 12–13.
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Edinburgh (30 June 1892), quoted in The Times (1 July 1892), p. 12.
1890s
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) sculptor from France
Quote in Biographie au pas de course, in Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, Vol. IV, Jean Dubuffet, Gallimard, Paris 1995, p. 510
posthumous
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Richard Cobden (1804–1865) English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman
Letter to F. Cobden (5 July 1835) during his visit to the United States, quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), pp. 33-34.
1830s
Yves Klein (1928–1962) French artist
In 1957; p. 35
before 1960, "Yves Klein, 1928 – 1962, Selected Writings"
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Budget speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1934/apr/17/financial-statement in the House of Commons (17 April 1934) <br class="br">Chancellor of the Exchequer
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954), p. 12
Marcos Pontes (1963) Brazilian astronaut
Artigo: Sucesso - Webpage Astronauta Marcos Pontes http://marcospontes.com.br/MANUTENCAO/ARTIGOS/ARTIGOS_2014/20140313_sucesso.html
Herrick Johnson (1832–1913) American clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 173.
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Quote from La vida secreta de Salvador Dalí. In: Complete Works, Autobiographical Articles 1. Ediciones Destino / Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Barcelona / Figueres, 2003, p. 648
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1941 - 1950
Anita Sarkeesian (1983) American blogger
<i>Damsel in Distress: Part 3 (Aug 1, 2013)</i>
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (Feminist Frequency, 2013 - 2015)
Gary Johnson (1953) American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New Mexico
Statement made to representatives of the Pagan Newswire Collective (PNC)
2011-10-16
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/paganswithdisabilities/2011/10/full-transcript-of-qa-with-presidential-candidate-gary-johnson/
2012-02-24
2011
Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) Dutch painter
Quote from De Kooning's speech 'What Abstract Art means to me' on the symposium 'What is Abstract At' - at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 5 February, 1951, n.p.
1950's
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Answer to the Conference at the Committee at Whitehall, Second Protectorate Parliament http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36885 (13 April 1657), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), pp. 496-497
Bill Downs (1914–1978) American journalist
Commentary on the Communist revolution in China.
Years of Crisis (1955)
David Mushet (1772–1847) Scottish metallurgist
The Wrongs of the Animal World, to Which is Subjoined the Speech of Lord Erskine on the Same Subject http://books.google.com/books?id=KVwPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR5, London, 1839. p. vi-v; As cited in: animalrightshistory.org http://animalrightshistory.org/animal-rights-c1837-1901/victorian-m/mus-david-muschet/1839-wrongs-animal-world.htm, 2014
Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) Indian historian
Jadunath Sarkar, cited in R.C. Majumdar (ed.), The History of the Indian People and Culture, Volume VI, The Delhi Sultanate, Bombay, 1960, pp. 617-18. Quoted in S.R.Goel, The Calcutta Quran Petition (1999) ISBN 9788185990583
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1831–1915) Irish Republican Brotherhood member
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, "Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary" (Globe Pequot, 2004) ISBN 1 59228 362 4, p. 189
This statement was greeted with loud cheers.
Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008) Russian-American economist and mathematician
Leonid Hurwicz, " The design of mechanisms for resource allocation http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/UCSBpf/readings/hurwiczaer.pdf," The American Economic Review, (1973): 1-30.
Satoru Iwata (1959–2015) Japanese video game programmer and businessman
Japan's Nintendo wins exclusive deal for Capcom's Monster Hunter 3 title http://www.sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=49593
Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Film can be found online, Chico Enterprise-Record, March 23, 2007.
Other
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
River out of Eden (1995)
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) British legal scholar
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter IV, Improved Legal Procedure, p. 50
Bill Thompson (1960) English technology writer, born 1960
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2940019.stm E-government begins with you, April, 11, 2003.
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309–1388) Tughluq sultan
Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. Elliot and Dowson. Vol. III, p. 328
Quotes from the Futuhat-i-Firuz Shahi
Matt Hughes (1973) American mixed martial artist
Search Quotes by Author | Successories | Quote Database | Motivational Posters http://www.successories.com/iquote/author/29225/matt-hughes-quotes/1
Mahmud Begada (1458–1511) Sultan of Gujarat
Junagadh (Gujarat) Mirat-i-Ahmdi, translated into English by M.F. Lokhandwala, Baroda, 1965,pp 47-52
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Broadcast (14 July 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (London: Heinemann, 1983), p. 664
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (1969)
William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) English mathematician and philosopher
Preface by Karl Pearson
The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885)
John Fowles book The Magus
Introduction (1977 edition)
The Magus (1965)
“In the same book he became the first man willingly to claim the title of anarchist.”
George Woodcock (1912–1995) Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic
Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962)
Context: Like such titles as Christian and Quaker, "anarchist" was in the end proudly adopted by one of those against whom it had been used in condemnation. In 1840, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, that stormy, argumentative individualist who prided himself on being a man of paradox and a provoker of contradiction, published the work that established him as a pioneer libertarian thinker. It was What Is Property?, in which he gave his own question the celebrated answer: "Property is theft." In the same book he became the first man willingly to claim the title of anarchist.
Undoubtedly Proudhon did this partly in defiance, and partly in order to exploit the word's paradoxical qualities. He had recognized the ambiguity of the Greek anarchos, and had gone back to it for that very reason — to emphasize that the criticism of authority on which he was about to embark need not necessarily imply an advocacy of disorder. The passages in which he introduces "anarchist" and "anarchy" are historically important enough to merit quotation, since they not merely show these words being used for the first time in a socially positive sense, but also contain in germ the justification by natural law which anarchists have in general applied to their arguments for a non-authoritarian society.
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
A Defence of Baby-Worship
The Defendant (1901)
Context: When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children.
We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.
Louis Riel (1844–1885) Canadian politician
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
Context: I prefer to be called one of the flock. I am no more than you are, I am simply one of the flock, equal to the rest. If it is any satisfaction to the doctor to know what kind of insanity I have, if they are going to call my pretensions insanity, I say, humbly, through the grace of God I believe I am the prophet of the New World.
I wish you to believe that I am not trying to play insanity, there is in the manner, in the standing of a man, the proof that he is sincere, not playing. You will say, what have you got to say? I have to attend to practical results. Is it practical that you be acknowledged as a prophet? Is it practical to say it. I think if the Half-breeds. have acknowledged me, as a community, to be a prophet. I have reason to believe that it is beginning to become practical. I do not wish for my satisfaction the name of prophet. Generally that title is accompanied with such a burden, that if there is satisfaction for your vanity there is a check to it.
George Woodcock (1912–1995) Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic
I am an anarchist!
Prologue
Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962)
“I thought, this title is mine, and it was.”
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) American journalist, actress
Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)
Context: Halfway through writing the book, I still had no title. It came wonderfully into being when I complimented my host at a party on his flourishing avocado plant. I said, I’d kept trying and failing with my own avocado pits. Someone said, what you’ve got is a dud avocado, and Ken said, that’s a good title for a novel. I thought, this title is mine, and it was. Ken and I had the same agent, and for a publisher we decided on Victor Gollancz, who was so good with first novels. Wonderfully, he accepted it, but with several caveats. He didn’t like the title. It sounded like a cookbook. He also wanted me to write under my married name. I said no to both. He accepted. He decided it needed a subtitle, "La Vie Amoureuse of Sally Jay in Paris." I said, Oh no, no! He said, this was the first time in his experience that an unknown writer had complained about a book cover. However, he did put on the book’s jacket that the subtitle was the publisher’s. Ken read it in proof and said, "You’ve got a thumping great best-seller here." Curiously, the first thing I felt was relief. I believed him. No one could predict how a play or novel would be received by the public like Ken could. And only then was I set free to let excitement take hold of me.
Joel Barlow (1754–1812) American diplomat
The Conspiracy of Kings (1792)
Context: In every clime, thy visage greets my eyes,
In every tongue thy kindred accents rise;
The thought expanding swells my heart with glee,
It finds a friend, and loves itself in thee. Say then, fraternal family divine,
Whom mutual wants and mutual aids combine,
Say from what source the dire delusion rose,
That souls like ours were ever made for foes;
Why earth's maternal bosom, where we tread,
To rear our mansions and receive our bread,
Should blush so often for the face she bore,
So long be drench'd with floods of filial gore;
Why to small realms for ever rest confin'd
Our great affections, meant for all mankind.
Though climes divide us; shall the stream or sea,
That forms a barrier 'twixt my friend and me,
Inspire the wish his peaceful state to mar,
And meet his falchion in the ranks of war? Not seas, nor climes, nor wild ambition's fire
In nations' minds could e'er the wish inspire;
Where equal rights each sober voice should guide,
No blood would stain them, and no war divide.
'Tis dark deception, 'tis the glare of state,
Man sunk in titles, lost in Small and Great;
'Tis Rank, Distinction, all the hell that springs
From those prolific monsters, Courts and Kings.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
13 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
“Geometry, to which I have devoted my life, is honoured with the title of the Key of Sciences”
Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) American mathematician
Ben Yamen's Song of Geometry (1853)
Context: Geometry, to which I have devoted my life, is honoured with the title of the Key of Sciences; but it is the Key of an ever open door which refuses to be shut, and through which the whole world is crowding, to make free, in unrestrained license, with the precious treasures within, thoughtless both of lock and key, of the door itself, and even of Science, to which it owes such boundless possessions, the New World included. The door is wide open and all may enter, but all do not enter with equal thoughtlessness. There are a few who wonder, as they approach, at the exhaustless wealth, as the sacred shepherd wondered at the burning bush of Horeb, which was ever burning and never consumed. Casting their shoes from off their feet and the world's iron-shod doubts from their understanding, these children of the faithful take their first step upon the holy ground with reverential awe, and advance almost with timidity, fearful, as the signs of Deity break upon them, lest they be brought face to face with the Almighty.
“The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker" was later used as Nixon's epitaph.
1960s, First Inaugural Address (1969)
Context: What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America — the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil, and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization.
If we succeed, generations to come will say of us now living that we mastered our moment, that we helped make the world safe for mankind.
This is our summons to greatness.
Isaac Asimov book The Last Question
"Introduction" to The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)<!-- , p. ix -->
The Last Question (1956)
Context: "The Last Question" is my personal favorite, the one story I made sure would not be omitted from this collection. Why is it my favorite? For one thing I got the idea all at once and didn't have to fiddle with it; and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word. This sort of thing endears any story to any writer.
Then, too, it has had the strangest effect on my readers. Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can give them the name of a story, which they think I may have written, and tell them where to find it. They don't remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably "The Last Question". This has reached the point where I recently received a long-distance phone call from a desperate man who began, "Dr. Asimov, there's a story I think you wrote, whose title I can't remember—" at which point I interrupted to tell him it was "The Last Question" and when I described the plot it proved to be indeed the story he was after. I left him convinced I could read minds at a distance of a thousand miles.
No other story I have written has anything like this effect on my readers — producing at once an unshakeable memory of the plot and an unshakeable forgettery of the title and even author. I think it may be that the story fills them so frighteningly full, that they can retain none of the side-issues.
Nostradamus book Les Propheties
Les Propheties (1555), Preface
Context: If I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish to attribute to myself such lofty title at the present time, for whoever is called a prophet now was once called a seer; since a prophet, my son, is properly speaking one who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future extend far off into time.
“The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied.”
Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men? — if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) American linguist
Footnote: Some scholars, however, now interpret his [David's] name as meaning "victory."
Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])
Context: Like Helen, Sarah is wonderously fair and ageless.... Like Helen, Sarah's name means "princess" in normal Hebrew, and "queen" in Akkadian. It is conceivable that (like David afterwards, whose name dāvîd means "leader, chief") her title came to be used as her name.
Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (1969)
Context: I have an essay with the title "Eyes in their Last Extremity".
The title comes from the suicide note of the short-story writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke... It is the phrase that pulls at me with the greatest strength. Akutagawa said that he seemed to be gradually losing the animal something known as the strength to live, and continued:
"I am living in a world of morbid nerves, clear and cold as ice... I do not know when I will summon up the resolve to kill myself. But nature is for me more beautiful than it has ever been before. I have no doubt that you will laugh at the contradiction, for here I love nature even when I am contemplating suicide. But nature is beautiful because it comes to my eyes in their last extremity."
Akutagawa committed suicide in 1927, at the age of thirty-five.
In my essay, "Eyes in their Last Extremity", I had to say: "How ever alienated one may be from the world, suicide is not a form of enlightenment. However admirable he may be, the man who commits suicide is far from the realm of the saint." I neither admire nor am in sympathy with suicide.
Alexander Hamilton book The Farmer Refuted
The Farmer Refuted (1775)
Context: The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent? To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
Context: It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as your President. There have been good days and tough days. But every day I have been inspired by the greatness of our country and uplifted by the goodness of our people. I have been blessed to represent this Nation we love. And I will always be honored to carry a title that means more to me than any other: citizen of the United States of America, and so, my fellow Americans, for the final time: Good night. May God bless this house and our next President. And may God bless you and our wonderful country.
“Also by the way, I have found a title for this book. From Here to Eternity.”
James Jones (1921–1977) American author
Letter to Maxwell Perkins (21 October 1946); p. 80
To Reach Eternity (1989)
Context: Also by the way, I have found a title for this book. From Here to Eternity. Taken from the "Whiffenpoof" song, of Yale drinking fame. It goes: "We are little black sheep who have gone astray, baa... baa... baa. Gentlemen songsters out on a spree, damned from here to eternity. God have mercy on such as we. Baa, etc." Maybe it's maudlin, but so am I. I get chills every time I sing it, even when sober.
Antonie Pannekoek (1873–1960) Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist
Source: Workers Councils (1947), Chapter One, The Task, Section 1.2
Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667) English theologian
A Single Eye, All Light, No Darkness; or Light and Darkness One (1650)
Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667) English theologian
A Single Eye, All Light, No Darkness; or Light and Darkness One (1650)
William Godwin (1756–1836) English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
Book V, Chapter 13
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
Michael Burleigh (1955) American historian and writer
Source: The Third Reich: A New History (2000), p. 219
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, On the History of Modern Philosophy (1833) [Translated from the German by Andrew Bowie]
S - Z
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Colonel Doctor Jens Ladislav in Ch. 30 : dismé and the doctor, p. 256
The Visitor (2002)
Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
Watts' Foreward to The Secret Oral Teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist Sects (1964)], by Alexandra David Neel
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Walter Jones (2 January 1814) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0052. <br class="br">1810s
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
The Astronomer by John Updike from Pigeon Feathers: and other stories p. 125 1959, 1962 Ballantine Books
Norman Thomas (1884–1968) American Presbyterian minister and socialist
"Why I Am A Socialist", Princeton Alumni Weekly, 1928. Reprinted in Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Campbell McMillian, The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition, The New Press, 2011.
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Get that: "The Next Steps" … They're going even further! … The Republicans favor a minimum wage — the smaller the minimum the better.
Harry Truman at Akron (11 October 1948), Good Old Harry
Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) British politician, historian and writer
That death caught people rather unawares. Do not discount the possibility that in a few years time someone may be able to write at least equally convincingly of the strange and rapid revival of liberal social democratic Britain.
Speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery (9 June 1980), quoted in The Times (10 June 1980), p. 2
1980s
Annie Proulx (1935) American novelist, short story and non-fiction author
On her short story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories in “An Interview with Annie Proulx” https://www.missourireview.com/article/an-interview-with-annie-proulx/ in The Missouri Review (1999 Mar 1) <br class="br">Personal life and writing career
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician
On the inspiration behind the song "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart" ** Chris Cornell Flashback Q&A: 'We Have to Be Aware That Life Is So Short', Yahoo!, May 19, 2017 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chris-cornell-flashback-qa-aware-life-short-023857577.html, <br class="br">On songwriting
John Witherspoon (1723–1794) Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Father of the United States
From his sermon "The Absolute Necessity of Salvation through Christ", 2 January 1758
John Holloway book Change the World Without Taking Power
It is impossible to read a newspaper without feeling rage, without feeling pain You can think of your own examples. Our anger changes each day, as outrage piles upon outrage.
Source: Change the World Without Taking Power (2002), Chapter I, "The Scream"
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994).
Undated
“With all due respect for the title of professor. Vetulani, however, is a unique moron.”
Jerzy Vetulani (1936–2017) Polish scientist
Cezary Gmyz, right-wing journalist, in an entry from his Twitter account https://twitter.com/cezarygmyz/status/642096205737119744.
“The head of a campaign office is just a title.”
Hou You-yi (1957) Taiwanese politician
Hou You-yi (2019) cited in " New Taipei City not to hold Double Ten flag ceremony http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2019/10/09/2003723650" on Taipei Times, 9 October 2019.
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) Indian politician
Source: Commissions and Omissions by Indian Presidents and Their Conflicts with the Prime Ministers Under the Constitution: 1977-2001, P.202.
Gangubai Hangal (1913–2009) Indian singer
Deepa Ganesh, in Gangubai's search for perfection http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/gangubai-s-search-for-perfection-114021401496_1.html
S. H. Raza (1922–2016) Indian artist
Quoted by Art connoisseur Sangeeta Chopra in "This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza}.
M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916–2004) singer,Carnatic vocalist
Gopal Gandhi in his book [Gandhi, Gopal, Of a Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches, http://books.google.com/books?id=Inp4jPFUHUkC&pg=PA164, 2011, Penguin Books India, 978-0-670-08502-6, 166]
About M.S.
Roger Federer (1981) Swiss tennis player
Billie Jean King, winner of 39 Grand Slams, after Federer won the 2009 French Open Final http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=reu-openfederergreat&prov=reuters&type=lgns
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
William Frederic Badé (pages 38-40)
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