Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it… — T. D. Allman Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mere fact that my comments have caused such strong protests, although I'm not a European, and also the fact that I… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement,… — August Sander Copy Share Image
We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
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