„Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.“

Radio From Hell (November 13, 2006)

Slaves of Time (pp. 14-15)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

Quelle: Ship of Destiny

Quelle: Silence: Lectures and Writings

2010s, 2015, Interview with Jim Gray (September 2015)

Quelle: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
Kontext: The greatest evils in our industrial system to-day are those which rise from the abuses of aggregated wealth; and our great problem is to overcome these evils and cut out these abuses. No one man can deal with this matter. It is the affair of the people as a whole. When aggregated wealth demands what is unfair, its immense power can be met only by the still greater power of the people as a whole, exerted in the only way it can be exerted, through the Government; and we must be resolutely prepared to use the power of the Government to any needed extent, even though it be necessary to tread paths which are yet untrod. The complete change in economic conditions means that governmental methods never yet resorted to may have to be employed in order to deal with them. We can not tolerate anything approaching a monopoly, especially in the necessaries of life, except on terms of such thoroughgoing governmental control as will absolutely safe guard every right of the public. Moreover, one of the most sinister manifestations of great corporate wealth during recent years has been its tendency to interfere and dominate in politics.

Quelle: Saturday

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Jack LaLanne: Live young forever, Robert Kennedy Publishing, Mississauga 2009, P. 15
LaLanne's reply when asked for the best advice he'd ever received, reported in the Denver Post (28 December 2003)

Quelle: Abandon

After winning the Greater Hartford Open, Charlie Sifford, Who Shattered a Barrier of Race in Golf, Dies at 92 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/sports/golf/charlie-sifford-first-black-player-on-pga-tour-dies-at-92.html by New York Times

There Is a Tide (p. 201)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

Northanger Abbey (1817)
Works, Northanger Abbey

Variante: How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Quelle: Meditations

There are no records of Roosevelt having made such a statement, and this is most likely a misquotation of the widely reported comment he made in a speech at the Citadel (23 October 1935):
: Yes, we are on our way back — not just by pure chance, my friends, not just by a turn of the wheel, of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we are planning it that way. Don't let anybody tell you differently.
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