In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
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You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already… — African Spir Copy Share Image