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A screaming comes across the sky.
Thomas Pynchonborn 1937Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 1 (First lines)
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
Thomas Pynchonborn 1937Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 3
- God
- Luck
The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.
Ayn Rand1905–1982
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Remarks in Arlington, Virginia (25 September 1987)
I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Space Shuttle “Challenger” Address (1986)
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Once you begin a great movement, there’s no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address (1989)
- Change
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours’ bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIIn context
- Luck
- War & Peace
If you are gonna kick society in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Keith Richardsborn 1943
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Alan Rickman1946–2016Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son” by Aaron Hillis, IFC.com (4 December 2008)
No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn’t work anyway.
John Robb
What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.
Gene Roddenberry1921–1991
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers1879–1935