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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
usa understanding unity
USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Al Neuharth
usa matter treason
The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there. Kurt Vonnegut
usa people trying
In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity. Eddie Izzard
usa america cost
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost. Arne Jacobsen
usa asking buttons
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?' Dennis Lehane
usa growth world
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. Earl Browder
usage turns universal
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over. Carl Andre
usa personality littles
I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush. Bill Maher
usa haze
La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze. Baltasar Gracian
white tears haunting
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.
white self black
Black implies white self implies other Alan Watts
white mind wish
It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males. Alan Bennett
white democrat my-time
There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time. Al Sharpton
white house white-house
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
white
What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
white people black
And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay. Chico Hamilton
white soup wonderful
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. Chiang Kai-shek
white people getting-high
All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high. Dave Chappelle