Orator

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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

Ralph Waldo Emerson· b. 1803View quote →

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🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature

Western philosophy

1803–1882

"There is no knowledge that is not power."

"First get rid of the delusion “I am the body,” then only will we want real knowledge."

"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."

"Finding true silence requires more than quieting our surroundings. It also means quieting our souls. This is the real dilemma of living in a wordy world."

73 quotes

🇺🇸Robert G. Ingersoll

Law

agnosticism

1833–1899

"I like Voltaire, because for half a century he was the intellectual emperor of Europe. I like him, because from his throne at the foot of the Alps he pointed the finger of scorn at every hypocrite in Christendom."

"The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates"

7 quotes

🇨🇭Helen Keller

Literature

"Who shall dare let his incapacity for hope or goodness cast a shadow upon the courage of those who bear their burdens as if they were privileges?"

"If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans."

"When the ultimate case is discussed — deployment of the German military — it should be Germany can neither answer ‘no’ out of principle or give an automatic ‘yes.’"

"Timeline at the Joseph Campbell Library at Pacifica Graduate Institute"

"Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you."

"Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches."

"Beyond the Beyond" Bruce Sterling's current weblog"

"There is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the shortcomings of someone else. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow."

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🇺🇸John Bartholomew Gough

Literature

1817–1886

"A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God."

"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication."

"We can escape and destroy evil through these shifts in our mindsets. As a therapist today, I can say that actually people do find freedom when they shift their mindsets away from hopelessness and powerlessness."

"“I have mood swings, but I can deal with that by watching Netflix and eating pickles."

"Language is the key to the heart of people."

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🇮🇹Ruben Vergara Meersohn

Business

b. 1991

"It's not about perfection. It's about volume. When you bring volume and consistency on the daily basis, that's where success occurs."

"Hockey is a momentum game. The puck didn't bounce our way."

"I nodded. This was something that I really liked a lot about my mother and father. They were always thinking ahead so we didn’t make the same mistake twice."

"M: Nam efficit hoc philosophia: medetur animis, inanes sollicitudines detrahit, cupiditatibus liberat, pellit timores."

24 quotes

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr

Politics

624–692

"History of the Prophets and Kings, New York, United States, 1989"

"Values that are expressed but that don't change behavior are not really values, they are lies that you tell yourself."

5 quotes

🇺🇸Charles Fletcher Dole

Literature

1845–1927

"Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before."

12 quotes

🇺🇸Clemantine Wamariya

Art

b. 1988

"I want to be so loud about the experience of killing each other. I want to tap into everyone’s senses, to touch on our human sensibility."

"Before our age of conceit, the whole world was alive in a way. The task of man was to challenge and master the world, to dare and to fight against its untamed fury."

"It was clear to me that men and women were equal — if not more so."

"Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives."

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Notable Quotes

"I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, b. 1803View →

"Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, b. 1803View →

"Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,—a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,—if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, b. 1803View →

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, b. 1803View →

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, b. 1803View →

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