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A quotation from Millay, Edna St. Vincent

So up I got in anger,
And took a book I had,
And put a ribbon on my hair
To lease a passing lad.
And, “One thing there’s no getting by —
I’ve been a wicked girl.” said I;
“But if I can’t be sorry, why,
I might as well be glad!”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
“The Penitent”, st. 3, A Few Figs from Thistles (1921)

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"The Penitent", st. 3, A Few Figs from Thistles (1921) - Millay, Edna St. Vincent | WIST Quotations

So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To lease a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl." said I; "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well…

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A quotation from Virgil

Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says; “I am coming.”

[Mors aurem vellens Vivite, ait, venio.]

Virgil (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]
“Copa [The Dancing Girl / The Barmaid / The Female Tavern Keeper],” ll. 37-38, Appendix Vergiliana [Minor Poems]

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The Copa quote in a Medieval Latin textbook

"Copa [The Dancing Girl / The Barmaid / The Female Tavern Keeper]," ll. 37-38, Appendix Vergiliana [Minor Poems] - Virgil | WIST Quotations

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming." [Pereat qui crastina curat. Mors aurem vellens Vivite, ait, venio.] The Appendix Vergiliana were long considered authentic, if younger, poems by Virgil, but scholars today consider them to be...

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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

The moral thing I wish to say to [future generations] is very simple. I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way, and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn the kind of charity and kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by John Freeman, Face to Face, BBC TV (1959-03-04)

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Interview by John Freeman, Face to Face, BBC TV (1959-03-04) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

The moral thing I wish to say to [future generations] is very simple. I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to...

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A quotation from Coffin, William Sloane

Make love your aim, not biblical inerrancy, nor purity nor obedience to holiness codes. Make love your aim, for

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels” — musicians, poets, preachers, you are being addressed.
“and though I … understand all mysteries, and all knowledge” — professors, your turn,
“and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor” — radicals take note;
“and though I give my body to be burned” — the very stuff of heroism;
“and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.” (1 Cor. 13:1-3 KJV).

I doubt if any other scriptures of the world there is a more radical statement of ethics. If we fail in love, we fail in all things else.

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924-2006) American minister, social activist
Credo, ch. 1 (2004)

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Credo, ch. 1 (2004) - Coffin, William Sloane | WIST Quotations

Make love your aim, not biblical inerrancy, nor purity nor obedience to holiness codes. Make love your aim, for "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels" -- musicians, poets, preachers, you are being addressed. "and though I ......

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A quotation from Hazlitt, William

It is erroneous to tie down individual genius to ideal models. Each person should do that, not which is best in itself, even supposing this coudl be known, but that which he can do best, which he will find out if left to himself. Spenser could not have written Paradise Lost, nor Milton the Faerie Queene. Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
“Thoughts on Taste”, Edinburgh Magazine (1819-07)

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It is erroneous to tie down individual genius to ideal models. Each person should do that, not which is best in itself, even supposing this could be known, but that which he can do best, which he will find out if left to himself. Spenser could not...

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A quotation from Billings, Josh

The best way I kno ov tew repent of enny thing is tew do better next time.

[The best way I know of to repent of anything is to do better next time.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 139 “Affurisms: Hooks & Eyes” (1874)

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Everybody's Friend, Or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 139 "Affurisms: Hooks & Eyes" (1874) - Billings, Josh | WIST Quotations

The best way I kno ov tew repent of enny thing is tew do better next time. [The best way I know of to repent of anything is to do better next time.] Variant: The best way I know to REPENT of anything is not to do it again and…

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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

WYATT: Do you think that philosophy contribute to happiness?

RUSSELL: Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)

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Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

WYATT: Do you think that philosophy contribute to happiness? RUSSELL: Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Collected in...

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A quotation from Gide, Andre

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

André Gide (1869-1951) French author, Nobel laureate
“An Unprejudiced Mind,” sec. 1, Pretexts (1959) [ed. O’Brien (1964)]

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"An Unprejudiced Mind," sec. 1, Pretexts (1959) [ed. O'Brien (1964)] - Gide, André | WIST Quotations

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

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A quotation from Adams, Douglas

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

  2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

  3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

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The Salmon of Doubt (2007) - Adams, Douglas | WIST Quotations

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when...

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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

The time is passed when you could have a happy minority living upon the misery of the great mass. That time is passed. People won’t acquiesce in it, and you will have to learn to put up with the knowledge that your neighbor is also happy, if you want to be happy yourself. I think, if people are wisely educated, they will have a more expansive nature and will find no difficulty in allowing the happiness of others as a necessary condition of their own.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)

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Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

The time is passed when you could have a happy minority living upon the misery of the great mass. That time is passed. People won't acquiesce in it, and you will have to learn to put up with the knowledge that your neighbor is also happy, if you...

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A quotation from Jacobs, Jane

I do not think military readiness, in itself, will defeat Communism. I do not think we can consider the job finished with that. I think it buys us time to do the bigger job. We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and that we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of strength and security of a successful society.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist
“No Virtue in Meek Conformity” (1952)

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"No Virtue in Meek Conformity" (1952) - Jacobs, Jane | WIST Quotations

I do not think military readiness, in itself, will defeat Communism. I do not think we can consider the job finished with that. I think it buys us time to do the bigger job. We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and...

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A quotation from Mencken, H. L.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
A Little Book in C Major, ch. 5, § 22 (1916)

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The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

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A quotation from Montaigne

He who imposes his argument by bravado and command shows that it is weak in reason.

[Qui establit son discours par braverie et commandement, montre que la raison y est foible.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
“Of Cripples_ [Des Boyteux]”_ (1587), Essays, Book 3, ch. 11 (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

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"Of Cripples [Des Boyteux]" (1587), Essays, Book 3, ch. 11 (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST Quotations

He who imposes his argument by bravado and command shows that it is weak in reason.   [Qui establit son discours par braverie et commandement, montre que la raison y est foible.] (Source (French)). Alternate translations: He that with braverie and...

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A quotation from McCarthy, Cormac

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who’s layin there?

Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) American novelist, playwright, screenwriter
No Country for Old Men (2005)

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No Country for Old Men (2005) - McCarthy, Cormac | WIST Quotations

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I…

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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

I should like to say that you have, through your knowledge, powers which humans have never had before. You can use these powers well or you can use them ill. You will use them well if you realize that humankind is all one family and that we can all be happy or we can all be miserable.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)

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Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

I should like to say that you have, through your knowledge, powers which humans have never had before. You can use these powers well or you can use them ill. You will use them well if you realize that humankind is all one family and that we can...

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