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A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On… — Alan Ryan
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! — William Wordsworth
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread.… — Harold S. Kushner
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light… — Charles Dickens
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as… — Jacques Barzun
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy… — Millicent Fawcett
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. — Helen Suzman
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. — Edith Sitwell
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native… — Henry David Thoreau
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to… — Keith Miller
Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and… — Tom Cruise
I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. — Lee Daniels
Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and… — Laura Mennell
Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade… — Alan Ryan
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill. — Henry Ward Beecher
Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills. — Percy Jewett Burrell
In God's mill even chaff becomes flour. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed. — Orison Swett Marden
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged… — Ray Stannard Baker
The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened… — Jonathan Raban
Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on… — Grant Morrison
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory.… — Rohinton Mistry

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