What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Levant , (1906 – 1972)
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 […]
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What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. …And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us. Great short quote and quotation by: President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of […]
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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?
What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french […]
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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts […]
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. Great short quote and quotation by: Karl Kraus , Austrian author and journalist (1874 – 1936)
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. Great short quote and quotation by: Benjamin Disraeli , British politician (1804 – 1881)
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What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
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What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. Great short quote and quotation by: George Eliot, Middlemarch , English novelist (1819 – 1880)