„But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.“
— Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
„For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.“
Howard Phillips Lovecraft15
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„A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.“
— Bernard Baruch American businessman 1870 - 1965
20,000 Quotes and Quips by Evan Esar (1968) original quote in Baruch, Bernard, The Public Years. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960, p.31.
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„Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.“
— Theophrastus ancient greek philosopher -371 - -287 p. n. e.
Characters, ch. 28 (16); translation from R. C. Jebb and J. E. Sandys (trans.), The Characters of Theophrastus (London: Macmillan, 1909), p. 139.
„What was the whole literature of supernatural horror but an essay to make death itself exciting?—wonder and strangeness to life’s very end.“
— Fritz Leiber American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910 - 1992
Chapter 27 (p. 166)
„All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.“
— Javier Cercas Spanish writer, journalist and professor of Spanish literature 1962
„I am convinced that the United Nations provides the best road to the future for those who have confidence in our capacity to shape our own fate on this planet“
— Kurt Waldheim 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, President of Austria 1918 - 2007
Context: I do not expect miracles or spectacular successes - sound political progress is seldom based in either - but I am convinced that the United Nations provides the best road to the future for those who have confidence in our capacity to shape our own fate on this planet.
The Challenge of Peace speech https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=l-8zjFmqrWsC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22I+am+convinced+that+the+United+Nations+provides+the+best+road+to+the+future+for+those+who+have+confidence+in+our+capacity+to+shape+our+own+fate+on+this+planet.%22+-quotes&source=bl&ots=4qdPUuEgR7&sig=veV7jGeSlmXbDn1FGnWvTky3kSM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb04WzhLnNAhXBtBoKHbSPAQEQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20am%20convinced%20that%20the%20United%20Nations%20provides%20the%20best%20road%20to%20the%20future%20for%20those%20who%20have%20confidence%20in%20our%20capacity%20to%20shape%20our%20own%20fate%20on%20this%20planet.%22%20-quotes&f=false, 1980
„Those who fail to provide for themselves will eventually injure their friends and those who always provide for their friends will eventually injure themselves.“
— Zhang Chao writer 1650
As quoted in Lin Yutang's With Love and Irony (1945), 'In Defence of Gold Diggers', p. 221
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„To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.“
— Samuel Beckett Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906 - 1989
„No matter how hard and wearisome an age this might be, it was certainly a very exciting one with regard to manifestations of the supernatural.“
— Fritz Leiber American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910 - 1992
Chapter 5 (p. 54)
„But it can all be summed up in this: The average man regards the common as natural, the uncommon as supernatural. The educated man—and by that I mean the developed man—is satisfied that all phenomena are natural, and that the supernatural does not and can not exist.“
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
Context: It is probably safe to say that at one time, or during one phase of the development of man, everything was miraculous. After a time, the mind slowly developing, certain phenomena, always happening under like conditions, were called “natural,” and none suspected any special interference. The domain of the miraculous grew less and less—the domain of the natural larger; that is to say, the common became the natural, but the uncommon was still regarded as the miraculous. The rising and setting of the sun ceased to excite the wonder of mankind—there was no miracle about that; but an eclipse of the sun was miraculous. Men did not then know that eclipses are periodical, that they happen with the same certainty that the sun rises. It took many observations through many generations to arrive at this conclusion. Ordinary rains became “natural,” floods remained “miraculous.” But it can all be summed up in this: The average man regards the common as natural, the uncommon as supernatural. The educated man—and by that I mean the developed man—is satisfied that all phenomena are natural, and that the supernatural does not and can not exist.
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„you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future“
— Danielle Steel American author of romance novels 1947
„The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.“
— Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
„There are ghosts and there is love,
And both are present here,
To those who listen, this tale will tell
The truth of love and if it's near.“
— Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965
Miss Harkins, Chapter 13, p. 139
„... WHEREAS, IN THE PAST, THE POINT OF DISAGREEMENT HAS BEEN BETWEEN DISSONANCE AND CONSONANCE, IT WILL BE, IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE, BETWEEN NOISE AND SO-CALLED MUSICAL SOUNDS.
THE PRESENT METHODS OF WRITING MUSIC, PRINCIPALLY THOSE WHICH EMPLOY HARMONY AND ITS REFERENCE TO PARTICULAR STEPS IN THE FIELD OF SOUND, WILL BE INADEQUATE FOR THE COMPOSER, WHO WILL BE FACED WITH THE ENTIRE FIELD OF SOUND.“
— John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992
Quote of John Cage, in: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); SILENCE; lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, CREDO/3