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Maybe this time it'S H G Wells.

Both good but incorrect guesses.

He could have met H. G. Wells but not Arthur C. Clarke.

He did not particularly care for Wells' style.

Jules Verne

Yes!

Can you tell me which figure in which book says it? Or was it from the man speaking as himself?

Arneb wrote:Can you tell me which figure in which book says it? Or was it from the man speaking as himself?

Oh - new twists to the game!

Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea?

Arneb wrote:Can you tell me which figure in which book says it? Or was it from the man speaking as himself?

It was my impression that this game required a quote by the person himself.

For example, I would not attribute "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" as a quote of William Shakespeare. He certainly wrote it but he, himself was not calling out to Romeo.

Does that make sense? Do I not understand the game?

tubeswell wrote:

Arneb wrote:Can you tell me which figure in which book says it? Or was it from the man speaking as himself?

Oh - new twists to the game!

Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea?

Wouldn't that be a different game?

yes - anyway You made me realise that it couldn't have been Captain Nemo because he wasn't a real life quotee.

Okay, WHEW! I wasn't trying to be pedantic. I just wanted to be sure I understood the game correctly.

Lance, you are right of course

Maybe it was because some of Jules Verne's figures are so obviously alter egos to the author that the border began to blur for me. Also, although I read a lot of Jules Verne in my teens, I wasn't aware he had written much non-fiction or reflections on his own work.

OK, probably too obvious, but definitely worth quoting:

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Sounds too modern for Hippocrates.

Great Soul Mahatma?

Definitely too modern for Hippocrates, though if your read the Hippocratic Oath, you can't help thinking that a lot of the attitude in the quotation seems to underly the rules enumerated in the oath.

Gandhi is, as we have seen so often here, a good but not a correct guess (the author of the quote was a contemporary of Gandhi's, though).

Needing a clue here Boss.

Indeed. No bells ringing here at all.

A well-known colleague of mine with a decidedly Christian and humanist background. The term ''reverence for life'' is central to his thinking.

Alsatian-born, therefore grew up German and became French later. He died and is buried where he had the greatest impact as a doctor, which is to say, not at a large and prestigious research institution or anything like that.

Oh is this the German doctor who went to Africa? Alfred Schweitzer (sp?)?

Edit after checking: Or perhaps his brother Albert?

Albert Schweitzer is the one. He is buried at Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambarene, Gabon. Reverence for life (as God's creation) was the cornerstone of his amplified and generalized modern version of the Christian love thy neighbour/love thy enemy complex.

On to you, Heid

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Johnny Cochran?

Lianachan wrote:Indeed. No bells ringing here at all.

So I guess you knew the answer?

Мастер wrote:

Lianachan wrote:Indeed. No bells ringing here at all.

So I guess you knew the answer?

On the contrary - I'd never heard of him

Lianachan wrote:On the contrary - I'd never heard of him

I thought it was a pun . . .