— Alfred Bester, buch The Stars My Destination
Quelle: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).
— Alfred Bester, buch The Stars My Destination
Quelle: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).
„This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.“
— Thomas Pynchon, buch The Crying of Lot 49
Quelle: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
— Paullina Simons, buch Tatiana and Alexander
Quelle: Tatiana and Alexander
— Benjamin Hoff, buch The Tao of Pooh
Quelle: The Tao of Pooh
— Ida Friederike Görres Austrian writer and noble 1901 - 1971
Broken Lights p. 82 Diaries 1951-1952
— Sukarno first President of the Republic of Indonesia 1901 - 1970
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
„Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.“
— David Foster Wallace, buch Unendlicher Spaß
Quelle: Infinite Jest
— Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 13
— Cory Booker 35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress 1969
[Fallon, Kevin, Cory Booker Rescues a Freezing Dog & 9 Other Things He Has Saved, https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-booker-rescues-a-freezing-dog-and-9-other-things-he-has-saved?ref=scroll, 21 August 2018, The Daily Beast, January 26, 2013]
Via Twitter, in response to a tweet asking "Why is there a family today that is ‘too poor’ to afford breakfast?" Booker would go on to do exactly that. He later told CBS that it had been a "terrible state of human existence", and continued "I'll be honest with you. I take so much for granted, even going to Starbucks and buying a cup of coffee is more than my daily food allowance right now," as quoted in [Bailey, Holly, Cory Booker’s week on food stamps: political ambition amid the burned sweet potatoes, https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/ticket/cory-booker-week-food-stamps-political-ambition-amid-101008142--election.html, 21 August 2018, Yahoo! News, December 11, 2012]
2012
— Prince American pop, songwriter, musician and actor 1958 - 2016
Just as Long as We're Together
Song lyrics, For You (1978)
„Come, let us arm with speed; and let us two
Try, what our forces may united do.“
— John Ogilby Scottish academic 1600 - 1676
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
— Cassandra Clare, buch City of Ashes
Variante: If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
Quelle: City of Ashes
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2014, Review of Signals Intelligence Speech (June 2014)
Kontext: Those values make us who we are. And because of the strength of our own democracy, we should not shy away from high expectations. For more than two centuries, our Constitution has weathered every type of change because we have been willing to defend it, and because we have been willing to question the actions that have been taken in its defense. Today is no different. I believe we can meet high expectations. Together, let us chart a way forward that secures the life of our nation while preserving the liberties that make our nation worth fighting for.