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Feb 18, 2024 · Change is a difficult, often violent process, both for individuals and for whole species. The more rapidly change, the uglier the conflict. Jim C. Hines, Revisionary (2016), Chapter 8; Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or ...
Mar 18, 2024 · Rosa Louise McCauley Parks ( February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". She is best remembered for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake 's demand that she relinquish her seat so a ...
Apr 28, 2024 · Quotes [ edit] The highest truth is this: God is present in all beings. They are His multiple forms. There is no other God to seek. To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean ", says the persevering soul; "at my will mountains will crumble up".
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Apr 16, 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. See also:
Mar 6, 2024 · Nikola Tesla is the true unsung prophet of the electronic age; without whom our radio, auto ignition, telephone, alternating current power generation and transmission, radio and television would all have been impossible. Ben Johnston in the "Introduction" to My Inventions : The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (1983).
Apr 13, 2024 · The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911). One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote—Alexander Pope. Augustine Birrell, Alexander Pope; in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 653-54.
