“ It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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“ No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a State-builder. ”
- Daniel De Leon- Copy
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“ Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators, God tailor and god mercer. ”
- Philip Massinger- Copy
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“ If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too. ”
- Patricia Schroeder- Copy
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“ Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. ”
- Bryant McGill- Copy
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“ America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. ”
- Alexander Graham Bell- Copy
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“ Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic. ”
- Andrew Johnson- Copy
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“ But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. ”
- Basil Bunting- Copy
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“ The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other… ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
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“ Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril. ”
- President Harry Truman- Copy
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“ Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure… ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
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“ I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man. That I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i… ”
- Ludwig Feuerbach- Copy
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“ In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists… ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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