"[On newspapers:] A first draft of history."

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Elizabeth Drew

#Firsts Quotes #Newspapers Quotes

“His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.”
“The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary, as then conducted whether Catholic or Protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan, was the most perfect.”

Source : "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 165, 1915.
“Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.”
“They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.”

Source : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.
“Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.”
“But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.”
“Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing â€” if only they have a will and begin.”

Source : Gustav Landauer (2010). “Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader”, p.4, PM Press
“Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?”

Source : "Ryan Giggs: Nice guy finishes first" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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