— Gordon Brown British Labour Party politician 1951
" Brown makes pitch to lead Britain http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6644717.stm", BBC News online, 11 May 2007.
Speech at the launch of his leadership campaign, 11 May 2007.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
— Michael Joseph Barry Irish poet and political figure 1817 - 1889
The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.“
— Diogenes Laërtius biographer of ancient Greek philosophers 180 - 240
Anacharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
— Catherine Doherty Religious order founder; Servant of God 1896 - 1985
"Living the Mandate", p. 40
The last part of the quote, about those who trade their souls to the 'in between', alludes to Rev 3:15-16.
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)
— Denis Diderot French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713 - 1784
On Dramatic Poetry (1758)
„Too dark the place and too inscrutable
where mortal men their deepest thoughts control.“
— Torquato Tasso Italian poet 1544 - 1595
Chè 'n parte troppo cupa, e troppo interna
Il pensier de' mortali occulto giace.
Canto V, stanza 41 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
„(Singapore) is not even a place where a white man is permitted to go to pieces….“
— Anthony Burgess English writer 1917 - 1993
"Tanah Melayu".
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
— Margaret Mead American anthropologist 1901 - 1978
Zdroj: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 118
— Gene Wolfe, kniha Storeys from the Old Hotel
"Slaves of Silver", Galaxy, 1971, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
Fiction
„Man errs as long as he strives.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
Variant translation: Man will err while yet he strives.
Prologue in Heaven
Faust, Part 1 (1808)
— Thomas Boston Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher 1676 - 1732
The Art of Manfishing, First published 1699.
Primary Sources
„But strive still to be a man before your mother.“
— William Cowper (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731 - 1800
Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Robert Louis Stevenson, kniha Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
— Lyndon B. Johnson American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969) 1908 - 1973
Special message to the Congress on the nation's cities (March 2, 1965); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 1, p. 240.
1960s
