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WIST Quotations

A quotation from The Bible

   When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host, and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give this person your place,’ and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place.
   “But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
   “For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
 
   [Ἔλεγεν δὲ πρὸς τοὺς κεκλημένους παραβολήν, ἐπέχων πῶς τὰς πρωτοκλισίας ἐξελέγοντο, λέγων πρὸς αὐτούς, Ὅταν κληθῇς ὑπό τινος εἰς γάμους, μὴ κατακλιθῇς εἰς τὴν πρωτοκλισίαν, μήποτε ἐντιμότερός σου ᾖ κεκλημένος ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλθὼν ὁ σὲ καὶ αὐτὸν καλέσας ἐρεῖ σοι, Δὸς τούτῳ τόπον, καὶ τότε ἄρξῃ μετὰ αἰσχύνης τὸν ἔσχατον τόπον κατέχειν.
   ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν κληθῇς, πορευθεὶς ἀνάπεσε εἰς τὸν ἔσχατον τόπον, ἵνα ὅταν ἔλθῃ ὁ κεκληκώς σε ἐρεῖ σοι, Φίλε, προσανάβηθι ἀνώτερον· τότε ἔσται σοι δόξα ἐνώπιον πάντων τῶν συνανακειμένων σοι.
   ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, καὶ ὁ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 14: 7-11 (Jesus) [NRSV (2021 ed.)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/13303/

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Horace

                                        But don’t all things,
virtue, a good name, honor, all that’s human and divine,
obey money, lovely money?
 
                                        [Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76931/

WIST Quotations · Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, "Si raro scribes," l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)] - Horace | WIST QuotationsBut don't all things, virtue, a good name, honor, all that's human and divine, obey money, lovely money? [Omnis enim res, Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris Divitiis parent.] Damasippus (quoting the Stoic philosopher Stertinius?) on the mindset of a miser. (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: For all and every thinge…
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*[John the Baptist]*{As the people were in expectation!*& all were questioning in their hearts concerning John!*whether he might be the Christ?*John answered them all!*saying!*“I baptize you with water!*but he who is mightier than I is coming!}*the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie!*He will baptize👉

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*[John the Baptist]*{*& said to him!*“Teacher!*what shall we do?”*& he said to them!*“Collect no more than you are authorized to do!”*Soldiers also asked him!*“*& we?*what shall we do?”*& he said to them!*“Do not extort money from anyone by threats!*or by false accusation!*& be content with your wages!”}👉

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*[John the Baptist]*{Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees!*Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down!*& thrown into the fire!”*& the crowds asked him!*“What then shall we do?”*&} he answered them!*“Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none!*& whoever has👉

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Molly Ivins

That’s why it’s called Establishment journalism. You concentrate on the people at the top, the people with power; you watch, you study how they make their moves, you get fascinated by it, and pretty soon you can’t see anything else — just the top, just the power. And the others, the people, the readers, matter so little that you don’t even bother to let them know what’s going on. You start to think like the people you cover. It can happen on any beat — business, police, politics, education. The stuff you want is from the top — you want to quote the chief, the superintendent, the chairman of the board. There are no reliable sources who earn less than $10,000 a year.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ivins-molly/76404/

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