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reading book thinking
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. Carlos Fuentes
reading book new-books
Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. C. S. Lewis
reading glasses vision
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision. Agnes Repplier
reading character incidents
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
reading world too-much
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much. Alan Tudyk
reading serious kind
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. Charlotte Bronte
reading mind doe
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. Charles Dudley Warner
reading book lambs
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. Charles de Gaulle
reading writing character
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. Charles Dickens
empires study imperialism
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5) Edward Said
empires world plunder
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.
empires poet modern
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Dana Gioia
empires misery humans
The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
empires roles found
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
empires sometimes lost
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire... Cardinal Richelieu
empires
We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic. Donald Rumsfeld
empires dishes ifs
If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire. Daniel Pinkwater
empires fallen five internal last six thousand wars waxed
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. John Boyd Orr
maps
Why are old maps always burnt? Chelsea Peretti
maps jars middle-east
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.
maps draws happenings
I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening. Denis Johnson
maps question since
Since the first day we had our meeting, the very first question and observation has been that the maps we have now are not right. Mike Horner
maps behaviour logic
There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all Bjork
maps use world
You can't use an old map to explore a new world. Albert Einstein
maps territory world
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... Alfred Korzybski
maps wilderness blank
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? Aldo Leopold
maps language
A language is a map of our failures Adrienne Rich