A quotation from Kerry Greenwood
Money can’t buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.
Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher, Book 18, Dead Man’s Chest, ch. 13 [Phryne] (2010)
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labor, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-08), “The Red-Headed League,” [Holmes], The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
In addition to, not as a substitute for, individual responsibility, there is a collective responsibility.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)
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THE DOCTOR: Now, if they should break through, run as if something very nasty were after you, because something very nasty will be after you.
Doctor Who (1963-1989) British science fiction television series, original run (BBC)
16×03 “The Stones of Blood,” Part 3 (1978-11-11) [w. David Fisher]
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MARCUS: The power of separating the intellect from the senses, and reason from instinct, is characteristic of the highest genius.
[Magni autem est ingenii sevocare mentem a sensibus et cogitationem ab consuetudine abducere.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 16 (1.16) / sec. 38 (1.38) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]
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MARCUS: The power of separating the intellect from the senses, and reason from instinct, is characteristic of the highest genius. [Magni autem est ingenii sevocare mentem a sensibus et cogitationem ab consuetudine abducere.WIST Quotations
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
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A quotation from Josh Billings
The reputashun that a man gits from hiz ansesstors often wants az mutch altering to fit him, az their old clothes would.
[The reputation that a man gets from his ancestors often wants as much altering to fit him, as their old clothes would.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-10 “Blossoms” (1877 ed.)
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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience — the knowledge that our mighty deeds will come to the ears of our contemporaries or “of those who are to be.” We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building up, by our heroic deeds, in the opinion and imagination of others.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 13, § 47 (3.13.47) (1951)
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There are three great destroyers of mankind, Plague, Famine, and Hero. Plague and Famine destroy your persons only, and leave your goods to your Heirs; but Hero, when he comes, takes life and goods together; his business and glory it is, to destroy man and the works of man.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)
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But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high — to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)
Speech (1960-07-15), “The New Frontier,” Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, Democratic National Convention, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 3 “Reading” (1854)
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Why cannot we remember all the contradictions which we feel within our own judgement, and how many things which were articles of belief for us yesterday are fables for us today?
[Que ne nous souvient il combien nous sentons de contradiction en nostre jugement mesmes ? combien de choses nous servoient hyer d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 26 (1.26), “It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity [C’est folie de rapporter le vray et le faux à nostre suffisance]” (1572) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.27]
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Take care not to attain victories over your superior. — All conquest is detested, and to conquer your master is either a folly or a calamity. All superiority is abominated; how much more superiority over superiority.
[Excusar victorias del patrón. Todo vencimiento es odioso, y del dueño, o necio, o fatal. Siempre la superioridad fue aborrecida, cuanto más de la misma superioridad.]
Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 7 (1647) [tr. Duff (1877)]
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
I’ve never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I’ve seen a few and they’re never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you’re in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 4 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene. I shall not give instances, since, if I did, I should myself fall under the ban of the law.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)
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Never make thy Physician thy heir.
[Non far ma medico tuo herede.]
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in Italian” (1659)
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Never make thy Physician thy heir. [Non far ma medico tuo herede.]WIST Quotations
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They have very few laws, because, with their social system, very few laws are required. Indeed, one of their great complaints against other countries is that, although they’ve already got books and books of laws and interpretations of laws, they neve…WIST Quotations
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of Man?
HOBBES: I’m not sure Man needs the help.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-04-06)
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CALVIN: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of Man? HOBBES: I’m not sure Man needs the help.WIST Quotations
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
EXPEDIENCY, n. The father of all virtues.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Expediency,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-06-07)
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EXPEDIENCY, n. The father of all virtues. Not collected in later books.WIST Quotations
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 13 “Ideology and Terror” (1951)
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JASON: I go -- a father once; now childless. MEDEA: You grieve too soon. Old age is coming. [ἸΆΣΩΝ: στείχω, δισσῶν γ᾽ ἄμορος τέκνων. ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: οὔπω θρηνεῖς: μένε καὶ γῆρας.] (Source (Greek)).WIST Quotations
A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized, anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Quoted in Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, ch. 21 (1948)
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized, anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't." I cannot find this in any of Roosevelt's written works or other primary sources.WIST Quotations
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A hasty quarrel sparks a fire, and hasty conflict sheds blood. If you blow on a spark, it will flame up, and if you spit on it, it will go out; nonetheless, both come out of your mouth.WIST Quotations
And in return may the gods grant you your heart's desire; may they give you a husband and a home, and the harmony that is so much to be desired, since there is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as…WIST Quotations
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MARY: Well, I worry terribly about lung cancer. I also worry about shortness of breath and heart disease. But what really worries me right this minute is that I’m not going to find a cigarette.
Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Mary, Mary, Act 3 (1961)
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MARY: Well, I worry terribly about lung cancer. I also worry about shortness of breath and heart disease. But what really worries me right this minute is that I'm not going to find a cigarette.WIST Quotations
A quotation from Richard Steele
The prevailing humour of crying up authors that have writ in the days of our forefathers, and of passing slightly over the merit of our contemporaries, is a grievance that men of a free and unprejudiced thought have complained of through all ages in their writings.
Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1713-04-09), The Guardian, No. 25
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The prevailing humour of crying up authors that have writ in the days of our forefathers, and of passing slightly over the merit of our contemporaries, is a grievance that men of a free and unprejudiced thought have complained of through all ages in …WIST Quotations
then the most surefire way for a writer to acquire the admiration of their contemporaries is to cease being one of them.
Death removes all the irritating defects of a living author (ambition, opinions, success) & leaves behind the most respectable of literary virtues: an inability to reply to critics.
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The sailor tells of stormy gales, of oxen talks the farmer,
The soldier counts his wounds, of sheep the shepherd prates away;
I sing of hours in rosy bowers, of dalliance with my charmer:
We all have here our proper sphere — his part let each one play.
[Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.
Nos contra angusto versantes proelia lecto:
Qua pote quisque, in ea conterat arte diem.]
Propertius (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 2, Elegy 1, l. 43ff (2.1.43–46) [tr. Cranstoun (1875)]
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The sailor tells of stormy gales, of oxen talks the farmer, The soldier counts his wounds, of sheep the shepherd prates away; I sing of hours in rosy bowers, of dalliance with my charmer: We all have here our proper sphere -- his part let each one pl…WIST Quotations
FOOL: Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath,
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 58ff (2.4.58-61) (1601)
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FOOL: Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid.WIST Quotations
"I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are y…WIST Quotations
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
[Le monde récompense plus souvent les apparences du mérite que le mérite même.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶166 (1665-1678) [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]
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The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. [Le monde récompense plus souvent les apparences du mérite que le mérite même.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition.WIST Quotations
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-31), The Rambler, No. 4
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York
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Perhaps if Ingersoll had looked at human existence through the biblical lens of Oppressor and Oppressed he may likely have agreed that infinite punishment is just right.
Let's consider History in say America.
Unless God steps in, the indigenous peoples and real owners of the land would be INFINITELY dispossessed by the colonialists.
Unless God steps in, Enslaved Africans would be INFINITELY enslaved.
Any evil we consider on this earth is INFINITE.
A murder has taken a life away FOR EVER.
Our cruel words can damage the spirit of a person FOR THEIR ENTIRE life.
Therefore, the punishment fits the crime.
We haven't and perhaps cannot understand the depth of evil. It is a behavior that is instigated by an evil being (devil in English) that is relentless and will not stop until God steps in to halt him. This is our opinion anyway and since life is finite, we will have opportunity to know what is on the other side of life.
A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Joint action is, after all, the final significance of all we do in our international politics today. But we are still held back by our old parochial nationalisms. We are still beset by dark prejudices. We are still divided by angry, conflicting ideologies. Yet all around us our science, our instruments, our technologies, our interests, and indeed our deepest aspirations draw us more and more closely into a single neighborhood.
Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965) American politician, diplomat, statesman
Speech (1965-07-09), “Strengthening the International Development Institutions,” sec. 12, United Nations Economic and Social Council, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
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A quotation from Francis Bacon
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
Essay (1625 ed.), “Of Youth and Age”
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Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”
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Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot t…WIST Quotations
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
A child should always say what’s true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Poem (1885), “Whole Duty of Children,” A Child’s Garden of Verses
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Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
[Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]
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It is a commonplace that the Christian Heaven, as usually portrayed, would attract nobody. Almost all Christian writers dealing with Heaven either say frankly that it is indescribable or conjure up a vague picture of gold, precious stones, and the endless singing of hymns. This has, it is true, inspired some of the best poems in the world […] but what it could not do was to describe a condition in which the ordinary human being actively wanted to be.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1943-12-20), “Can Socialists Be Happy?” Tribune Newspaper [as John Freeman]
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Christianity promises to cure existence of conflict. Nietzsche's objection is that the operation succeeds but the patient becomes deadly dull as fuck.
So Orwell finds a literary failure. Schopenhauer finds a metaphysical truth: we understand suffering better than happiness cuz desire structures consciousness.
Nietzsche finds an indictment: a paradise w/o striving abolishes suffering by abolishing life's intensity.
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Schopenhauer wants release from the machinery of desire. Nietzsche wants us to become strong enough to affirm it.
Sam diagnosis, opposite prescriptions.
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