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This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.


Thomas B. Macaulay

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JEANIENE FROST The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
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ALAN MORRISON The senator cleared his throat, uncomfortable. This was probably new to him—the sensation of being...
JENN MARIE THORNE For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall a...
BIBLE No book was ever written down by any but itself.
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DEYTH BANGER That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.
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RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
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LOIS LOWRY Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement
ERIKA JOHANSEN The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO I really believed in the stocks in this book -- I own more of these stocks than I've ever owned in a...
GENE WALDEN If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it...
GALILEO GALILEI Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
BENJAMIN JOWETT The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.
ELLEN J. BARRIER A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA If ever the book which I am not going to write is written it must be the full confession by Christen...
C.S. LEWIS The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in ...
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BEVERLY NICHOLS He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK We don't want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more an...
DAVID KEENE Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
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ROBERT S. HILLYER Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ig...
SAADI Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO I think the word that would best describe [him] is blissfully ignorant of his surroundings. Farris w...
PATRICK QUINN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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VIRGINIA HENLEY The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Life is just a book of chapters written by God which you have to read very carefully before it finis...
VIKRANT PARSAI Religion is the biggest drama, the man has ever written and the God is the best character, the man h...
NEIL JAIN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could atta...
HAROLD NICOLSON Her suspense was terrible.
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JOSEPH SMITH, JR. It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
RICHARD BENTLEY It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself
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RUDOLPH DELSON The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
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A.E. SAMAAN The way to final freedom is within thy self.
THE BOOK OF THE GOLDEN PRECEPTS This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
GEORGE BURNS This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
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GARY F EVANS... For any Galesburg swim team, this is by far the best they've ever done.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
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JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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ROSE MACAULAY I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
DAVID MACAULAY At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
ROSE MACAULAY But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not who...
ROSE MACAULAY He wanted to pull himself. I was not going to him let him do that. He is a fiery guy, a passionate g...
TONY MACAULAY Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J.C. MACAULAY He's a friend, but the kind of friend you talk to twice a year.
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a liv...
MACAULAY CULKIN I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.
MACAULAY CULKIN We [Michael Jackson and I] talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most pe...
MACAULAY CULKIN Love's a disease. But curable.
ROSE MACAULAY The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there?
ROSE MACAULAY As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it...
ROSE MACAULAY He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.
ROSE MACAULAY So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed wi...
ROSE MACAULAY It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, c...
LORD MACAULAY We have to deal with the hand that we?re dealt. We have to look at it as the glass being half-full. ...
TONY MACAULAY You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
ROSE MACAULAY The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY He was pretty good in the stuff we asked him to do.
COLIN MACAULAY Brock just seems very natural doing it.
COLIN MACAULAY He was great. We hope to have him on again.
COLIN MACAULAY Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
DAVID MACAULAY I've never thought about the ages of my readers.
DAVID MACAULAY Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own l...
DAVID MACAULAY I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get...
DAVID MACAULAY I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.
DAVID MACAULAY Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till the...
LORD MACAULAY We'd see people live more simply, and to them it's a way of life.
KATE MACAULAY I don't know what lies ahead, but I do know who the head is and he does not lie!
PASTOR THOMAS B. PASSANTE Trail or Trial, is determined by where "I" am positioned.
PASTOR THOMAS B. PASSANTE You can think about manhood, you can talk about manhood or you can walk as a man should.
PASTOR THOMAS B. PASSANTE I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING