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Said in the 1900s
“The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, "Do trousers matter?"' ‘The mood will pass, sir.’”
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we cultivate the habit of keeping the air pure and of breathing only fresh air, we can save ourselves from many a terrible disease. ... Sleeping with the face uncovered is as essential as sleeping in fresh air. Many of our people are in the habit of sleeping with the face covered, which means that they have to inhale the poisonous air which has been exhaled by themselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else, if it'll save it, save this plan. That's the whole point. We're going to protect our people if we can.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?”
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the cosmos itself undergoes an immense and indeed an infinite number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond […] to those of modern scientific cosmology.”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. New York: Random House, 1980. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN …
“One practical thing also I will ask of you. Will you say, each night and morning, with all your heart's desire and with the attention of your mind as well, the following words. Their united saying will set up a rhythm and a momentum of great potency.”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushman would very soon go mad.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now," Herod calmly said, "You can kill all the new-born....Kill them all....take your men and let your men take their swords. Make sure they're sharp. To Bethlehem. Hack. Lunge. Chop. Kill.”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...that very loyalty to the past with its dream of beauty and with its real hardness and hardships. These things save us from what is the greatest peril of our age, the peril of materialism....The struggle against materialism in the hearts of our people is one of the greatest struggles of this age.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech upon receiving the Freedom of the Burgh of Inverness, Scotland (13 June 1930), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), pp. 191-192.
“We must never substitute a doctrine of Black supremacy for white supremacy. For the doctrine of Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Social Justice and the Emerging New Age" address at the Herman W. Read Fieldhouse, Western Michigan University (18 December 1963)
“Chwilami myślę, że śnię. I co dzień rano otwieram tę samą księgę i czytam te same słowa, by pogłębić moją wiedzę istotną. I z niej to czerpię pożywienie codzienne dla ducha, a samotny jestem jak pająk w swej sieci. Takim będę do śmierci.”
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John F. Kennedy, press conference (November 10, 1963). Transcript, The New York Times (November 11, 1963), p. 20. In Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy (1965), these words are followed by "There may be difficulties with the Co…
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes!”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)
“We know from many experiences that this is what the work of art does: its life — in which we have shared the alien existences both of this world and of that different world to which the work of art alone gives us access — unwillingly accuses our lives.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Profession of Poetry," Partisan Review (September/October 1950), p. 166
“Nie tyle martwi ją możliwość mojej śmierci, co brak perspektyw na bzykanie.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ale mi wstyd bo… każdy gbur wie, głowy nie urwał: żydowskiej kurwie, żydowska kurwa.”
Julian Tuwim (1894–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Coolidge: An American Enigma (1998), by Robert Sobel, Regnery Publishing, p. 243. , 9780895264107-->