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Texas Spent Years Screaming About ‘Snowflakes’ On Campus. Now It’s Building The World’s Biggest Safe Space.
Texas Spent Years Screaming About ‘Snowflakes’ On Campus. Now It’s Building The World’s Biggest Safe Space.
For the better part of a decade, conservative politicians—and Texas politicians in particular—have been absolutely apoplectic about the state of free speech on college campuses. You’ve heard …
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I do not know Mr. Willkie, but the headline in one of the metropolitan papers yesterday said: “Willkie Aims At Unity, Defense and Recovery.” I’m discouraged. In Heaven’s name, will anyone aim at anything else?Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1940-07-01), “My Day”
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Column (1940-07-01), "My Day" - Roosevelt, Eleanor | WIST Quotations
I do not know Mr. Willkie, but the headline in one of the metropolitan papers yesterday said: "Willkie Aims At Unity, Defense and Recovery." I'm discouraged. In Heaven's name, will anyone aim at anything else? Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite…
WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from Charles Mackay
The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Fortune-Telling” (1841)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, "Fortune-Telling" (1841) - Mackay, Charles | WIST Quotations
The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other…
A quotation from Judith Martin
If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1982-08-28)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/2703/
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"Miss Manners," syndicated column (1982-08-28) - Martin, Judith | WIST Quotations
If you can't be kind, at least be vague. Widely cited as a Miss Manners quotation, this is actually the headline given in at least some outlets (e.g., The Washington Post) for this date's column (which may or may not have been the title suggested by the column itself). The…
The ways of dead people are not our ways. They have a very oblique way of expressing themselves, and often they’ll tell you something that can be interpreted many ways; it gives them a way out while preserving their reputation for infallibility.
S. P. Somtow (b. 1952) Thai-American music composeer, conductor, author [Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; สมเถา สุจริตกุล; Somthao Sucharitkun]
“Lottery Night,” World Fantasy Convention Program Book (1989-10)
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"Lottery Night," World Fantasy Convention Program Book (1989-10) - Somtow, S. P. | WIST Quotations
The ways of dead people are not our ways. They have a very oblique way of expressing themselves, and often they’ll tell you something that can be interpreted many ways; it gives them a way out while preserving their reputation for infallibility. Collected in Gardner Dozois, ed., Year's Best Science…
WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Orwell, George:
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to …
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/72718/
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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:
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Everyone has a confused notion of good,
On which he sets his mind, and which he desires;
And therefore everyone tries to attain it.
[Ciascun confusamente un bene apprende
nel qual si queti l’animo, e disira;
per che di giugner lui ciascun contende.]
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https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/66196/
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The Divine Comedy [Divina Commedia], Book 2 "Purgatorio," Canto 17, l. 127ff (17.127-129) [Virgil] (1314) [tr. Sisson (1981)] - Dante Alighieri | WIST Quotations
Everyone has a confused notion of good, On which he sets his mind, and which he desires; And therefore everyone tries to attain it. [Ciascun confusamente un bene apprende nel qual si queti l'animo, e disira; per che di giugner lui ciascun contende.] (Source (Italian)). Alternate translations: All follow good;…
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⚁ ⚀ ⚃ ⚃ ⚁→#criteria
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