59 Source Quotes

Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)

In all 'benedictions', be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the 'source' of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.

Cited as being from a December 1913 speech by William Manley German in the Canadian House of Commons, on what he said Franklin claimed 'was the real cause of the War of Independence.'

3, (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use 'cardinal sins' instead of 'main human sins' and 'laziness' instead of 'indolence'.

Charles Moore in his Introduction to George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation (1926), edited by Charles Moore, xi-xv.

This quotation actually comes from page 211 of Emile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophets (1937) in which he quotes Chesterton as having Father Brown say (in 'The Oracle of the Dog' from 1923): 'It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.' Cammaerts then interposes his own analysis between further quotes from Father Brown: ''It's drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it's coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition.' The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything: 'And a dog is an omen and a cat is a mystery.'' Note that the remark about believing in anything is outside quotes - it is from Cammaerts. The American Chesterton Society has explained the origin of the phrase.

They found the Spring in the heart of the Forest; only once long ago had Niggle imagined it, but he had never drawn it. Now he perceived that it was the source of the lake that glimmered, far away and the nourishment of all that grew in the country.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre, the source work from which most of these quotations are taken. This is a newly edited and updated version for ease of online reading, with fully restored typography conventions and author's phrasing to accurately reflect intended meaning of the original published work. Hyperlinks to external references have been introduced to help clarify unfamiliar terminology and offer background context about key personalities and events mentioned in the text.

The quote is taken from an address Dayan gave to Technion University students on March 19, 1969. A transcription of the speech appeared in Ha'aretz on April 4, 1969.

The End of Faith (2004), page 17[2]

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Waterhouse, (June 26, 1822). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12, pp. 241-243.

Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), London: Stockdale. This was Jefferson's only book.

As quoted in 'Scots Are So Stylish.. And Ewan Mcgregor Looks Fab In A Kilt' by Maria Croce in The Daily Record (19 September 2007)

Frank Crane, Four Minute Essays, Volume V (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1919).

Dr. Frank Crane, Everyday Wisdom, (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Copyright, 1927, Dr. Frank Crane).

Bridgewater College: Denise Levertov

PBS Frontline Interview with Eldridge Cleaver

The 'Brockhaus-Plon edition' (1960-1962), the original text:

Extract from June 1967 Interview

Source of compiled quotes

Thomas Paine at Liberty Online

William Faulkner at the official site of the Nobel Prizes

NFL.com: Steve McNair.

Anne Hathaway at IMDb

Official Dan Quayle Site

Index magazine interview

Ruminator 2005 interview

Interview magazine

German Wikipedia

Talking Points Memo

On Woody Allen:

The Colbert Report

Patner, Andrew. Chicago Sun-Times, 'Allan Bloom, warts and all' 16 April 2000. (Accessed 16 May 2007).

West, Thomas G. The Claremont Institute, The Claremont Institute Blog Writings. 'Allan Bloom and America' 1 June 2000. (Accessed 16 May 2007).

'En voi paljastaa lahdettani.' ('I can't reveal my informant.')

'En tieda, kuka tietoja vuotaa.' ('I don't know by whom is the information leaking.')

'Du Reve' in La Difficulte d'Etre [The Difficulty of Being] (1947)

Music without words is like leaving the mind behind. And leaving the mind behind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is music.

Luther's Works, Church and Ministry III, American Ed., Helmut T. Lehman, Eric W. Gritsch, eds., Augsburg Fortress Press, 1966, Vol. 41:279. ISBN 0800603419 ISBN 9780800603410.

Interview with David G Hartwell, The New York Review of Science Fiction (March - April 1989)

As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244

Richard Anthony Proctor, Astronomical Essays (1872), 'Sir John Herschel', p.1

Zaide, Gregorio (2003), Jose Rizal: Life, Works and Writings of a Genius, Writer, Scientist and National Hero. National Bookstore, Manila. ISBN 9710805207

Quoted in Representative Men: Uses of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

As quoted in 'Wizard Edison' in The Newark Advocate (2 January 1903), p. 1 according to reasearch by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson at snopes.com

The Daily Show

Book I, ch. 7

As quoted by Thomas Carlyle in 'Novalis' (1829)