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Tocqueville, Alexis de
1805–59
1805–59
1
Despots themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they desire it for themselves alone, and they maintain that everyone else is altogether unworthy of it.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
Despots themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they desire it for themselves alone, and they maintain that everyone else is altogether unworthy of it.
L'Ancien régime
(1856)
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
L'Ancien régime
(1856)
What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
De la Démocratie en Amérique
(1835–40) vol. 1
Toffler, Alvin
1928–
1928–
1
Culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with a much more serious malady that might be called "future shock". Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
Culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with a much more serious malady that might be called "future shock". Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
in
Horizon
Summer 1965; the book
Future Shock
was published 1970
Tolkien, J. R. R.
1892–1973
1892–1973
1
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
The Fellowship of the Ring
(1954) epigraph
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
The Hobbit
(1937)
Tolstoy, Leo
1828–1910
1828–1910
1
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyse it by encumbering it with remedies.
All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina
(1875–7) pt. 1, ch. 1 (tr. A. and L. Maude)
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyse it by encumbering it with remedies.
War and Peace
(1865–9) bk. 10, ch. 29 (tr. A. and L. Maude).
All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.
letter to Prince V. P. Meshchersky, 22 August 1871
Tone, Wolfe
1763–98
1763–98
1
I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.
Wolfe Tone (1763–98), who in trying to cut his throat in prison severed his windpipe instead of his jugular, and lingered for several days
I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.
Wolfe Tone (1763–98), who in trying to cut his throat in prison severed his windpipe instead of his jugular, and lingered for several days
Oliver Knox
Rebels and Informers
(1998)
Toplady, Augustus Montague
1740–78
1740–78
1
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
"Rock of Ages, cleft for me" (1776 hymn)
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