Source: 1832. See The Minds of Men: An American Intelligence Brief https://books.google.com.br/books?id=u2I6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 by Eric Sanders. AuthorHouse, 2014. pp. 27-28
Quotes about use
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Source: "An Inventor's Seasoned Ideas", New York Times (8 April 1934)
Don't Blame Me, written by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, Reputaion (2017)
“A good poet is of no more use to his country than a good petanque player.”
Source: Unsourced
Ultralight Beam
Lyrics, The Life of Pablo (2016)
Heard 'Em Say
Lyrics, Late Registration (2005)
Last Call
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
Family Business
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
"That's My Purpose" on Nutbush City Limits (1973)
Lyrics
Source: As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act III, movie XV, (1623)
Music lyrics, Great Deep (2021) —"Linger"
"Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says he’s ready to give his life for Ukraine" https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/vitali-klitschko-says-hes-ready-to-give-his-life-for-ukraine/, New York Post, 18 March 2022
“The surrounding world is different for each of us, despite moving in a common world”
Pedro Fernando, Book Train To Save The World (2022) - (PAULO FERNANDO FAZENDA MANUEL)
Interview https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/20/what-are-the-prospects-for-peace-an-interview-with-abby-martin/ with Counterpunch (2021)
Interview https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/20/what-are-the-prospects-for-peace-an-interview-with-abby-martin/ with Counterpunch (2021)
H. E. Butler's translation:
Indeed nature itself seems to have given music as a boon to men to lighten the strain of labour: even the rower in the galleys is cheered to effort by song. Nor is this function of music confined to cases where the efforts of a number are given union by the sound of some sweet voice that sets the tune, but even solitary workers find solace at their toil in artless song.
Book I, Chapter X, 16
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
Original: (la) Atque eam natura ipsa videtur ad tolerandos facilius labores velut muneri nobis dedisse, si quidem et remigem cantus hortatur; nec solum in iis operibus in quibus plurium conatus praeeunte aliqua iucunda voce conspirat, sed etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur.
Context: Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
“If we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.”
Context: 'Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.
Original: Capire l'importanza di non toccare una persona che non ci voglia, rendersi conto che non sia giusto illudere qualcuno che non ci appartenga, ma solo per egoismo, per il piacere di farlo o per pura soddisfazione non è da tutti. E soprattutto, significa amare e rispettare il valore umano.
Source: prevale.net
“Imperfections make us unique in the world.”
Original: Le imperfezioni ci rendono unici al mondo.
Source: prevale.net
“Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
All the time.”
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Variant: It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
Source: House Rules
“No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.”
Source: The Tao of Pooh
“What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?”
Source: Succubus Dreams
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
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“Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.”
Source: War and Peace
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“You are perfect for a female."
"Not where I come from."
"Then they're using the wrong standard.”
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
“You're in an awfully good mood," he observed. "Was there a sale at Khakis-R-Us?”
Source: The Golden Lily
“Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.”
“We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.”
Source: Alice in Zombieland
“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
Variant: No one can hate you more than someone who used to love you.
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.”
“And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.”
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Context: To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
“If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.”
“Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!”
Source: The Titan's Curse