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Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible.


Terry Teachout

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KELLY JONES The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inc...
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BILL CARLSON And the vast majority are occurring as a result of unprotected heterosexual sex .
ANNA FORBES I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sw...
ALAN MOORE I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON We've always tried to report the science, to stick with the facts, to report things as they are and ...
JANE DEPRIEST SUVs have an exceptional safety record and are safer than, or as safe as, cars in the vast majority ...
ERON SHOSTECK The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the va...
BARRY RITHOLTZ For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and a...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
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THEHEALTHFOODGURU “A writer soon learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”
CJ HECK There are no Muslim terrorists. There are terrorists. There are criminals who claim to be Muslims. W...
PAUL HAWKINS All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down inf...
AARON LEVIE When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose p...
GORE VIDAL Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
BERTRAND RUSSELL We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY The vast majority of parents work hard at making sure (their children) get an education. There are s...
MARY TIEDE WILHELMUS The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratc...
PAUL DAVIES A small number of advanced Web sites will present some problems. But the vast majority of sites will...
ERIC KROCK A vast majority of my customers are using eBay as their primary business platform.
DAVE COTTER It is absolutely critical that we do everything humanly possible to learn all the facts as accuratel...
JANET RENO Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventin...
PAUL DANIELS Moreover, the vast majority of them were drafted - they were forced to serve Hitler just as other Je...
BRYAN MARK RIGG They are brutal and capable of anything. We must act to stop them as soon as possible.
CHARLES LEE Some people registered as NGOs hoping to get funding and the vast majority of them never de-register...
ANJA BEER Some people registered as NGOs hoping to get funding and the vast majority of them never de-register...
ANJA DE BEER Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL We feel that the vast, vast majority of 16-year-olds are able to drive safely.
DAVE DRUKER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherw...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The Party and the government are affectionate to the people though typhoon and other calamities are ...
HUI LIANGYU It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are...
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LT. RAHN FARDER If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
FOGG BRACKELL I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual fa...
ALEXIS OHANIAN But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look a...
DIANA GABALDON At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY The majority of ours are good, and the majority of them are good, ... I can't really say (the fights...
ANTHONY MORRIS It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON I would say the vast majority are not in a day labor-type scenario. Contractors and employers have a...
JOSE GONZALEZ The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The...
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CHUCK FISHER The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clut...
MACNEILE DIXON The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clut...
WILLIAM MACNEILE DIXON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness...
CHERYL R COWTAN While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance....
GENA SHOWALTER Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS The best year so far as for me when I am a children it's when I finish school and start doing someth...
DEYTH BANGER Research in the past has wound up abusing, harming or hurting people. You want to stick to these reg...
ARTHUR CAPLAN ...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spel...
ARTHUR KOESTLER Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catas...
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PAUL RYAN Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any ...
ALEXANDRA PETRI Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE There are studies that show there are actual biological changes, and some of them create adverse con...
MICHAEL ALLWEISS Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN Anything man can make, man can destroy.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but ...
MARK TWAIN We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
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DAN GELBER Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have a...
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RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN Matches aren't always as perfect as John's and Mike's, but the vast majority work really well. We've...
JUSTIN LEE Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re...
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TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ...
TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a...
TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --...
TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li...
TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
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