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Patton, George S. -- “Letter of Instruction Number 1″ (6 Mar 1944); appendix (D) to War As I Knew It (1947)

Dave — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:03 +0000

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

George S. Patton (1885-1945) American soldier
“Letter of Instruction Number 1″ (6 Mar 1944); appendix (D) to War As I Knew It (1947)

Carlyle, Thomas -- “The Hero as Divinity,” On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841)

Dave — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:20:08 +0000

The thoughts they had were the parents of the actions they did; their feelings were the parents of their thoughts.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
“The Hero as Divinity,” On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841)

Confucius -- Analects, 4.14 [tr.Legge (1930)]

Dave — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:19:25 +0000

A man should say, … “I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”

Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese philosopher [Ku'ng Ch'in, Ku'ng Fu-tzu]
Analects, 4.14 [tr.Legge (1930)]

Tacitus -- Histories, Book I, ch. 39 (AD 100-110)

Dave — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:18:38 +0000

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

Tacitus (c.56-c.120) Roman historian, orator, politician [Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]
Histories, Book I, ch. 39 (AD 100-110)

Hoffer, Eric -- The True Believer (1951)

Dave — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:17:42 +0000

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
The True Believer (1951)

Variant found elsewhere: "I doubt if the oppressed ever fight for freedom..."

Twain, Mark -- (Apocryphal)

Dave — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:49:40 +0000

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
(Apocryphal)

Not found in Twain's writing. He was 11 when his father died.

Kissinger, Henry -- “Golda Meir: An Appreciation” (13 Nov 1977)

Dave — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:48:33 +0000

History is often cruel, and rarely logical, and yet the wisest of realists are those who recognize that fate can indeed be shaped by human faith and courage.

Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) German-American diplomat
“Golda Meir: An Appreciation” (13 Nov 1977)

Kronenberger, Louis -- “Aphorisms,” Vogue (1 Mar 1964)

Dave — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:47:14 +0000

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has cause more harm than vice.

Louis Kronenberger (1904-1980)
“Aphorisms,” Vogue (1 Mar 1964)

Sun-Tzu -- The Art of War

Dave — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:44:49 +0000

A leader leads by example not by force.

Sun-Tzu (fl. 6th C. AD) Chinese general and philosopher [a.k.a. Sun Wu]
The Art of War

Arendt, Hannah -- The Origins of Totalitarianism, ch. 10, sec. 1 (1951)

Dave — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:26:19 +0000

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, ch. 10, sec. 1 (1951)

Twain, Mark -- “The American Claimant,” ch. 2 (1892)

Dave — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:53:07 +0000

But banish care, it’s no time for it now — on with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there’s any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine ….

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
“The American Claimant,” ch. 2 (1892)

See Byron. Full text.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III “The Eve of Waterloo” (1816)

Dave — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:51:16 +0000

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III “The Eve of Waterloo” (1816)

King, Martin Luther -- Where Do We Go from Here>, 3.2 (1967)

Dave — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:50:24 +0000

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American clergyman and reformer
Where Do We Go from Here>, 3.2 (1967)

Swift, Jonathan -- The Tatler #63 (Sep 1709)

Dave — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:49:43 +0000

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) English writer and churchman
The Tatler #63 (Sep 1709)

Auden, W. H. -- “Squares and Oblongs” (1948)

Dave — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:48:00 +0000

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
“Squares and Oblongs” (1948)