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histories mainly swift
I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy. Ben Elliot
histories invent ladies middle mountain travelers
I had read the histories of mountain climbers, of suffragette captains, of travelers to the Middle East... all the ladies who went to the Middle East. I'd like to go myself. I didn't invent anything in my book. I didn't need to. Marguerite Young
histories history logic men natural
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Francis Bacon
histories novels people period time written
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times. Alan Furst
history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
history
When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
logic cold evolution
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. David Quammen
logic ethics accomplished
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. Anton Chekhov
logic students reasonable
Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing. Deng Xiaoping
logical shoreline knows
The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Aristotle
logic tradition obsolete
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time. Ed Parker
logic humans human-beings
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
logic appeals reason-and-logic
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. Samuel Butler
logic enough reason
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
logic pleasure footsteps
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. Alexander Smith
men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Charles Caleb Colton
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
natural states knows
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know. Byron Katie
natural gas natural-gas
Natural gas is the future. It is here. Bill Richardson
natural attributes propensity
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. Bertrand Russell
natural reserves strategic
We have no strategic reserves for natural gas,
natural reach
When he first started, it was all just natural talent. Now we have him sprinting, he's strengthening his legs, and I think he is going to reach 6-8 soon.
natural products
I'm really into natural and organic products. Chanel Iman
natural tony
Tony is a natural leader, not only on the field, but off it. He'll have everyone's support.
natural deals
It takes a great deal of experience to become natural. Willa Cather
naturally neighbor northern pointing
We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany. Leon Askin