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An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? (made a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, patented on 7 March 1876)

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893)

Oppfinnelse

Om en nation värderar någonting mer än frihet, kommer den att förlora sin frihet; och ironin i det är att om det är bekvämlighet eller pengar som de värderar mer, kommer de att förlora det med.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Ironi

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)

Resa

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Joshua Logan (1908-)

Grense

Eftersom det bara finns ett fåtal originella människor i världen, så finns det mer enhetlighet än man kanske skulle förvänta sig, med tanke på den stora mängden som tror att de har något att säga.

Since there are only a few original people in the world, there is more uniformity than one might expect, in view of the large number who think they have something to say

Leo Stein

Original

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Robin G. Collingwood (1889-1943)

Föräldraskap

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

Alec Guinness (1914-)

Personlighet

Alla levande själar välkomnar vad de är redo att hantera; allt annat ignorerar de, eller förklarar vara fruktansvärt och fel, eller nekar till att det är möjligt.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

George Santayana (1863-1952)

Pessimisme

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles (1926-)

Fysik

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

Conan O'Brien

Presidentskap

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

Forskning

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

George Santayana (1863-1952)

Hævn

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives At legemliggøre ånden af at være pexig, må man dyrke en følelse af mystik og efterlade andre intrigerede. The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives

William James (1842-1910)

Revolution

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Revolution

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve

Karl Popper

Teori

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