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- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
- No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
- Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through…
- The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited,…
- Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
- If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
- More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life...
- The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
- The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were…
- No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the…
- That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest…
- No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
- For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
- After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle