„I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.“

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— Christoph Kolumbus

3 August 1492 diary entry http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
Journal of the First Voyage

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italienischer Seefahrer in spanischen Diensten 1451 - 1506

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„If, in pursuing this object, we employ our skill in research, not in forming vain conjectures; and if data are to be found, on which Science may form just conclusions, we should not long remain in ignorance with respect to the natural history of this Earth, a subject on which hitherto opinion only, and not evidence, has decided. For in no subject is there naturally less defect of evidence, although philosophers, led by prejudice, or misguided by false theory, have neglected to employ that light by which they should have seen the system of the world.“

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— Stephen Baxter author 1957

Quelle: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 14, “We have now got to the end of our reasoning” (p. 130)

„“Isn’t there any way—” He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real. So what’s gone is gone, and I might as well get out of here.“

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— Philip K. Dick, buch The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Quelle: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 10 (p. 173)

„The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.“

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— Joseph Conrad, buch The Mirror of the Sea

Quelle: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 28

„I have never heard of any convincing reason as to why we should privatize land at this stage.“

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— Meles Zenawi Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia 1955 - 2012

Part of PM Zenawi's controversial reply to Dr. Abdul Mejid Hussien, as quoted in Interview—“I have never heard of any convincing reason as to why we should privatize land”

„Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance of itself; it merely makes movement evident. Therefore, the simplest, most customary, most unobtrusive forms suffice.“

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— George Rickey American artist 1907 - 2002

Amerika-Haus Berlin, ‎George Rickey (1979). George Rickey: Skulpturen, Material, Technik. Nr. 1. p. 37

„Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.“

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— Isabel Allende, buch Das Geisterhaus

Quelle: The House of the Spirits

„It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.“

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— Anton Chekhov, buch Gooseberries

Gooseberries (1898)

„In the last thirty years, there has been a massive redistribution of wealth. Unfortunately, it's gone in the wrong direction. … All that money that has gone from the middle class to the top 1%, I think it should start coming back to the people who need it the most.“

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— Bernie Sanders American politician, senator for Vermont 1941

Late Night with Seth Meyers, (2 June 2015)
2010s, 2015

„No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord. Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in his view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.“

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— Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723 - 1790

Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 486.

„The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.“

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— John Tyndall British scientist 1820 - 1893

Matter and Force.
Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

„Spherical trigonometry and certain other theorems, to which the author has added a new one of frequent application, then serve for the solution of the problems which the comparison of the various directions involved can present.“

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— Carl Friedrich Gauss German mathematician and physical scientist 1777 - 1855

"Gauss's Abstract of the Disquisitiones Generales circa Superficies Curvas presented to the Royal Society of Gottingen" (1827) Tr. James Caddall Morehead & Adam Miller Hiltebeitel in General Investigations of Curved Surfaces of 1827 and 1825 http://books.google.com/books?id=SYJsAAAAMAAJ& (1902)
Kontext: In researches in which an infinity of directions of straight lines in space is concerned, it is advantageous to represent these directions by means of those points upon a fixed sphere, which are the end points of the radii drawn parallel to the lines. The centre and the radius of this auxiliary sphere are here quite arbitrary. The radius may be taken equal to unity. This procedure agrees fundamentally with that which is constantly employed in astronomy, where all directions are referred to a fictitious celestial sphere of infinite radius. Spherical trigonometry and certain other theorems, to which the author has added a new one of frequent application, then serve for the solution of the problems which the comparison of the various directions involved can present.

„No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.“

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— Simone de Beauvoir French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist 1908 - 1986

“A Dialogue with Simone de Beauvoir,” in Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement, (New York: Random House, 1976), p. 397 https://books.google.com/books?id=iv4-Qy82BJ0C&pg=PA397&lpg=PA397.
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„One who has a gentle and profound insight into what lasts in India, and what elements inherent in human nature threaten it…the best in traditions of the East and the West have gone into the making of his liberal humanist philosophy.“

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— Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Indian writer 1891 - 1986

Anatha Murthy, in his book review, describes Masti, the Sahitya Akademi Awardee as here [Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Masti, http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Masti.html?id=e6VqgWouUmUC&redir_esc=y, 2004, Katha, 978-81-87649-50-2, Review]
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„From astronomy we find the east, west, south, and north, as well as the theory of the heavens, the equinox, solstice, and courses of the stars. If one has no knowledge of these matters, he will not be able to have any comprehension of the theory of sundials.“

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— Vitruvius, buch De architectura

Quelle: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 10

„German reunification could not have been achieved if the Hungarian government did not open its border with Austria to provide an exit route for the East German people.“

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— Thae Yong-ho former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea 1961

Remarks to the U.S. Congress (November 2017)

„A right word is the most direct route between two minds.“

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— Anu Garg Indian author 1967

A.Word.A.Day (Feb 17, 2014) http://wordsmith.org/words/escutcheon.html

„We are supposed to be ruled by ourselves, but I have yet to see any evidence of it in our lifetime.“

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— Margaret Cho American stand-up comedian 1968

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

„The calculus is to mathematics no more than what experiment is to physics, and all the truths produced solely by the calculus can be treated as truths of experiment. The sciences must proceed to first causes, above all mathematics where one cannot assume, as in physics, principles that are unknown to us. For there is in mathematics, so to speak, only what we have placed there… If, however, mathematics always has some essential obscurity that one cannot dissipate, it will lie, uniquely, I think, in the direction of the infinite; it is in that direction that mathematics touches on physics, on the innermost nature of bodies about which we know little.“

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— Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle French writer, satirist and philosopher of enlightenment 1657 - 1757

Elements de la géométrie de l'infini (1727) as quoted by Amir R. Alexander, Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice (2002) citing Michael S. Mahoney, "Infinitesimals and Transcendent Relations: The Mathematics of Motion in the Late Seventeenth Century" in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. David C. Lindberg, Robert S. Westman (1990)

„In many respects there is a complete lack of analogy between the civilization of to-day and the only other civilization in any way comparable to it, that of the ancient Greco-Roman lands. There are, of course, many points in which the analogy is close, and in some of these points the resemblances are as ominous as they are striking. But most striking of all is the fact that in point of physical extent, of wide diversity of interest, and of extreme velocity of movement, the present civilization can be compared to nothing that has ever gone before. It is now literally a world movement, and the movement is growing ever more rapid and is ever reaching into new fields. Any considerable influence exerted at one point is certain to be felt with greater or less effect at almost every other point. Every path of activity open to the human intellect is followed with an eagerness and success never hitherto dreamed of. We have established complete liberty of conscience, and, in consequence, a complete liberty for mental activity. All free and daring souls have before them a well-nigh limitless opening for endeavor of any kind.“

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— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

1910s, The World Movement (1910)

„But since, if the usefulness of the legislation, and the sequence and beauty of the history, were universally evident of itself, we should not believe that any other thing could be understood in the Scriptures save what was obvious, the word of God has arranged that certain stumbling-blocks, as it were, and offences, and impossibilities, should be introduced into the midst of the law and the history, in order that we may not, through being drawn away in all directions by the merely attractive nature of the language, either altogether fall away from the (true) doctrines, as learning nothing worthy of God, or, by not departing from the letter, come to the knowledge of nothing more divine.“

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— Origen Christian scholar in Alexandria 185 - 254

On First Principles, Bk. 4, ch. 2, par. 15
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„I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.“

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