"All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future."

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Resonant Thoughts

"I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, t…"

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy1905–1980

#leadership

"Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled."

— Greil Marcus

Music1945

#time

"When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as s…"

— Stephen Jay Gould

Science1941–2002

#wisdom

"The whole tendency of civilization is...towards the multiplication of the collective functions of society. The ever growing complications of civilization create for us new services which have to be un…"

— Winston Churchill

Politics1940–2010

#family