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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in…
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth…
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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done,…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled…
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These…
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced…
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is…
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up…
— H.G. Wells
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If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this…
— Rudolf Flesch
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says…
— Ralph Steadman
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough,…
— Anne Carson
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And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus…
— Douglas Adams
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...to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before...
— Douglas Adams
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing…
— David Leavitt
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