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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c51f8e8 | How they Agree; how temp'ratly they Feed; How curiously they Build; how chastly Breed; How seriously their Bus'ness they intend; How stoutly they their Common-good defend; How timely their Provisions are provided; How orderly their Labors are divided; What Vertues patterns, and what grounds of Art; What Pleasures, and what Profits they impart; When these, with all those other things I mind Which in this Book, concerning Bees, I finde: Me th.. | nature philosophy | Charles Butler | |
| 8ac2822 | A loving heart is the truest wisdom. --Charles Dickens | Marie Force | ||
| 766dc7c | Lafitte turned up in yet another tangle of major, historic proportions during the 1960s. Around the time of the JFK assassination, Lafitte worked for the Reily Coffee Company and then as a chef for the World Trade Mart, both in New Orleans. William B. Reily, an avid anti-Communist, owned the Reily Coffee Company and was closely connected to McCarthyite and rabid anti-Communist Edward Scannell Butler, who were both close to CIA assistant dir.. | H. P. Albarelli | ||
| c64c3da | Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) was one of the key figures of decadentism. This turn-of-the-century trend was an outgrowth of romanticism and carried certain features to and past their breaking point. However, the word "decadent" can be used in two ways. One the one hand, it is a fairly neutral term referring to a certain postromantic trend in the arts running parallel and partly covering styles ranging from Pre-Raphaelitism to symbolism, e.. | decadent | Henry Bacon | |
| 9657917 | No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless other founders of modern American liberalism were among the nine thousand Americans who studied in German universities during the nineteenth century. When the American Economic Association was formed, five of the six first officers had studied in Germany. At least twe.. | Jonah Goldberg | ||
| a4ba359 | This was especially true of the navy sailors under Rommel's charge. Since the Versailles Treaty had forbidden the Germans from maintaining a navy, these sailors were now army men. Butler records a story in which Rommel, derided by his men for wearing his World War I medals, replied by telling them of his prayers for them during his evenings at the front: "My prayers were heard, because here you are." As Rommel would later write in his In.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| d4b593a | experience has taught me that it is best never knowingly to underestimate the lethality of a sufficiently determined butler. | Charles Stross | ||
| cd94481 | Roderick Sutton, Earl of Westerham, owner of Farleigh Place, a stately home in Kent Lady Esme Sutton, Roderick's wife Lady Olivia "Livvy" Sutton, twenty-six, the Suttons' eldest daughter, married to Viscount Carrington, mother of Charles Lady Margaret "Margot" Sutton, twenty-three, the second daughter, now living in Paris Lady Pamela "Pamma" Sutton, twenty-one, the third daughter, currently working for a "government department" Lady Diana ".. | Rhys Bowen | ||
| 76ad69c | An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER" | Charles M. Sevilla | ||
| 7a7995a | To restrain one's ambitions, in recognition of the rights of others, is a contributor to international order, not an abdication from it. | David C. Hendrickson | ||
| 7cfb885 | Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.' 'I'm not trying to say it - I just said it. | alternate-worlds create-your-future create-your-life creation deliberate-creation manifestation reality spiritual spirituality | Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves | |
| 5789547 | You were a wizard. What caused all that?" "I think it was probably an inexplicable phenomenon," said Windle. "There's a lot of them about, for some reason. I wish I knew why." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 81b5f1a | One lifetime isn't enough OH I DON'T KNOW Hmmm? WINDLE POONS? Yes? THAT WAS YOUR LIFE And with great relief and general optimism, and a feeling that on the whole everything could have been much worse, Windle Poons died. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 15ac86d | I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 135b400 | The severest justice may not always be the best policy. | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1f3c12f | I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| fde0274 | Piece by piece, pushing that rock up the hill. | Bill Clinton | ||
| 60a69d5 | Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she's spent a lifetime doing it. | Bill Clinton | ||
| 70c7e86 | The Chaucer Pubbe Gagge | Bill Bailey | ||
| 4888834 | It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still. | Bill Bailey | ||
| 80c9e05 | There's more evil in the charts than in an Al-Qaeda suggestion box. | Bill Bailey | ||
| 5d0bca4 | I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. I actively seek it out. | Bill Bailey | ||
| f556f1e | Milton Keynes: Satan's lay-by. | Bill Bailey | ||
| c3e4926 | Singing as U2, in Irish accent] Hello! Some old Celtic bollocks! | Bill Bailey | ||
| f7e618c | Juxtaposition, you can't handle the juxtaposition! | Bill Bailey | ||
| af13359 | Is it an Oud? | Bill Bailey | ||
| 95a76a9 | James Blunt - a man who recently got voted more annoying than paper cuts. | Bill Bailey | ||
| ac021c5 | For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption. | Bill Bryson | ||
| a5ae9fa | We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 48f231d | Bryson. You've got three kinds of chromosomes: X, Y and fuck-head. - Katz | Bill Bryson | ||
| 5c53f18 | Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid. | Bill Bryson | ||
| cb0671b | Excuse me, but I just have to say this. You are more stupid than a paramecium. | Bill Bryson | ||
| c9d36f0 | Tell me, did they specify 'asshole' on the job description, or did you take a course?" | Bill Bryson | ||
| 05575e7 | The thing about the Army Corps of Engineers is that they don't build things very well. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 4c1de00 | America was entering the age not just of the automobile but of the retarded attention span. | Bill Bryson | ||
| dc608e2 | There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 43dbfff | Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 057a1a1 | Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 982c078 | Rub one out like a man, it's the champagne of victory. | Bill Burr | ||
| e262266 | I feel your pain. | Bill Clinton | ||
| 16cf9b0 | End welfare as we know it. | Bill Clinton | ||
| 9a46853 | The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. | Bill Clinton | ||
| 5d2911f | We want to live forever, and we're getting there. | Bill Clinton | ||
| 1c194d9 | I end tonight where it all began for me: I still believe in a place called Hope. | Bill Clinton |