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Memorable Quotations from Albert Camus

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Memorable Quotations from Albert Camus
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Born in Algeria, Albert Camus (1913–60) was a French writer and philosopher. His belief in the absurdity of the human condition categorized him with existentialism, but his courageous humanism differentiated him from that group. The characters in his novels and plays, although extremely aware of the meaninglessness of the human situation, assert their humanity by rebelling against their circumstances. His best-known works are the novels The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956) and the essays The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) and The Rebel (1951). Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. The first draft of an autobiographical novel, discovered after his death, was published as The First Man (1994).

Memorable Quotations from Aldous Huxley

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Memorable Quotations from Aldous Huxley
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The English author Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was the grandson of T.H. Huxley. After writing critical essays and symbolist poetry, he focused on the novel. Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), and Point Counter Point (1928) all portray social decadence. Brave New World (1932) depicts a nightmarish 25th-century Utopia. Additional works include Eyeless in Gaza (1936) and Ape and Essence (1948). In later years he was intensely interested in mysticism and Eastern philosophy. Huxley also published numerous short stories and essays.

Memorable Quotations from Benjamin Disraeli

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Memorable Quotations from Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81), 1st earl of Beaconsfield was a British statesman and writer. Of Jewish ancestry, he was baptized a Christian in 1817. His political essays and novels secured him an enduring place in English literature. Elected to Parliament in 1837, he grew into an exceptional, practical, and scathingly witty politician. In 1848 he became leader of the Tory protectionists. Disraeli supported a political partnership with the working classes, and as chancellor of the exchequer (1852, 1858–59, 1866–68), he “educated his party” (now the Conservative party) to pass the somewhat radical Reform Bill of 1867, which enfranchised about 2 million men, largely of the working class, and significantly helped his party. He became prime minister in 1868 but lost the office to Gladstone that same year. His second ministry (1874–80) generated many domestic reforms but is notable for its forceful foreign policy. The annexation of the Fiji islands (1874) and the Transvaal (1877), and the wars against the Afghans (1878–79) and the Zulus (1879), declared England an imperial world power. Disraeli's purchase of controlling shares of the Suez Canal strengthened British interests in the Mediterranean. After the Russo-Turkish War, he persuaded Turkey to cede Cyprus to Great Britain, and through the Congress of Berlin he lessened Russian power in the Balkans. A favorite of Queen Victoria, he had her crowned empress of India in 1876. His policy of democracy and imperialism energized his party.

Memorable Quotations from British Philosophers

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Memorable Quotations from British Philosophers
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The brilliant British philosophers included in this remarkable collection of quotations include Sir Alfred J. Ayer, Francis Bacon, Roger Bacon, Jeremy Bentham, F. H. Bradley, Edmund Burke, R. G. Collingwood, Ralph J. Cudworth, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Reid, Bertrand Russell, Herbert Spencer, Alfred North Whitehead, and William of Occam.

Memorable Quotations from Business Leaders

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Memorable Quotations from Business Leaders
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Memorable Quotations from Business Leaders
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This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, great thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of famous business leaders, including Roger Ailes, Mary Kay Ash, Steve Ballmer, P. T. Barnum, Bruce Barton, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, John C. Bogle, Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Leo Burnett, Andrew Carnegie, Steve Case, Michael Dell, W. Edwards Deming, Barry Diller, Walt Disney, Patrick Dixon, Bernie Ecclestone, Larry Ellison, Malcolm Forbes, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Jay Gould, Alan Greenspan, Kenneth C. Griffin, Andy Grove, Lee Iacocca, Steve Jobs, Philip Knight, Ken Lay, John Mackey, Michael Milken, Rupert Murdoch, Ross Perot, T. Boone Pickens, Sumner Redstone, John D. Rockefeller, Colonel Sanders, Howard Schultz, Charles Schwab, George Soros, Kerry Stokes, John Templeton, Donald Trump, Ted Turner, Paul A. Volcker, Sam Walton, Thomas J. Watson, Jack Welch, Meg Whitman, Oprah Winfrey, Gordon Wu, and Mortimer Zuckerman.

Memorable Quotations from Denis Diderot

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Memorable Quotations from Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot (1713–84) was a French encyclopedist and materialist philosopher. He was extremely influential in motivating the rationalist thought of the 18th century. His lifework, the Encyclopédie, for which he recruited the leading French talents of the time, exemplified the spirit of the Enlightenment. Also a novelist, satirist, and playwright, he produced The Father of the Family (1758) the first “bourgeois drama.” He wrote many philosophical works and in his Salons pioneered in modern art criticism. In his later years, he appreciated the patronage of Catherine II of Russia.

Memorable Quotations from Edmund Burke

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Memorable Quotations from Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke was an Irish-born British politician and writer, who was a member of Samuel Johnson's literary circle. His early writings involved aesthetics and philosophy. In 1765 he became private secretary to the Marquess of Rockingham (then prime minister) and entered Parliament. In Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), he was the first to argue the merit of political parties. As a member of Parliament he called for conciliation with the American colonists and warned against taxing them unreasonably. Attempting to reform the British East India Company in the 1780s, he initiated the impeachment of Warren Hastings, governor general of India, on corruption charges. His most renowned work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), expresses his opposition to the Revolution. Burke's writings significantly influenced 19th-century conservative political theory.

Memorable Quotations from Eric Hoffer

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Memorable Quotations from Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) was an American philosopher and social writer. He published ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work. In 2001, the Eric Hoffer Award was established in his honor.

Memorable Quotations from Famous Existentialists

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Memorable Quotations from Famous Existentialists
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Memorable Quotations from Famous Existentialists
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Existentialism is a philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or apathetic universe, deems human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's actions.

The extraordinary existentialists included in this book are Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ralph Ellison, Frantz Fanon, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Friedrich Nietzsche, José Ortega y Gasset, Jean-Paul Sartre, Miguel de Unamuno, and Richard Wright.

Memorable Quotations from Famous Witty People

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Memorable Quotations from Famous Witty People
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The famous witty people included in this book are George Ade, Nelson Algren, Fred Allen, Minna Antrim, Tallulah Bankhead, Bernard Baruch, Brendan Behan, David Ben-Gurion, Robert Benchley, Aneurin Bevan, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Birkett, George Borrow, Bertolt Brecht, Vera Brittain, Heywood Broun, Lenny Bruce, Luis Buñuel, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Herb Caen, Truman Capote, Emily Carr, Angela Carter, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Raymond Chandler, Charlie Chaplin, Lord Chesterfield, Sir Winston Churchill, Frank Moore Colby, Cyril Connolly, Quentin Crisp, e. e. cummings, Edward Dahlberg, Salvador Dali, Benjamin Disraeli, Albert Einstein, Ian Fleming, E. M. Forster, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Gallico, W. S. Gilbert, Paul Goodman, Ruth Gordon, William Hazlitt, A. P. Herbert, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hope, Kin Hubbard, W. R. Inge, Robert G. Ingersoll, Washington Irving, Alice James, Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas Jerrold, Gerald W. Johnson, Pamela Hansford Johnson, samuel Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Karl Kraus, Joseph Wood Krutch, Jean de La Bruyère, Jean de La Fontaine, Jean-François de La Harpe, François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Stanislaw Lec, Oscar Levant, Abraham Lincoln, Walter Lippmann, Anita Loos, Clare Boothe Luce, Archibald MacLeish, Harold Macmillan, Don Marquis, Groucho Marx, Mary McCarthy, Marshall McLuhan, Lord Melbourne, H. L. Mencken, Wilson Mizner, Marilyn Monroe, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ethel Watts Mumford, Ogden Nash, George Jean Nathan, O. Henry, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Cesare Pavese, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Anthony Powell, V. S. Pritchett, James Reston, Will Rogers, Helen Rowland, Saki (H. H. Munro), Carl Sandburg, Dorothy L. Sayers, George Bernard Shaw, Dame Edith Sitwell, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Logan Pearsall Smith, Madame de Staël, John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, J. August Strindberg, Jonathan Swift, Booth Tarkington, James Thurber, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Orson Welles, Mae West, Oscar Wilde, and Alexander Woollcott.

Memorable Quotations from Friedrich August Hayek

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Memorable Quotations from Friedrich August Hayek
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Memorable Quotations from Friedrich August Hayek
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Born in Austria-Hungary, Friedrich August Hayek (1899-1992) was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is believed to be one of the most influential economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century, winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974.

Memorable Quotations from G.K. Chesterton

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Memorable Quotations from G.K. Chesterton
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Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English author, conservative, and Catholic apologist. A prolific writer, he produced studies of Browning (1903) and Dickens (1906); novels, including The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904); detective fiction featuring popular Father Brown; poems; and essays, collected in Tremendous Trifles (1909) and other works. With Hilaire Belloc he championed the economic theory of Distributism.

Memorable Quotations from George Bernard Shaw

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Memorable Quotations from George Bernard Shaw
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Born in Ireland, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was a celebrated playwright and acerbic literary personality of the early 20th century. He first attained fame as a music critic, but by then had already begun writing essays, political pamphlets, books and plays. Among his most well-known plays are Arms and the Man (1894), Major Barbara (1905), Saint Joan (1923), and Pygmalion (1914). The last was adapted fifty years later into the Broadway musical My Fair Lady. Shaw also won an Oscar in 1938 for his screenplay for a non-musical movie version of Pygmalion. For all these successes, Shaw is still better known for his legendarily large ego and sometimes cantankerous personality: He was a vegetarian and teetotaler, a radical socialist and social reformer, and a renowned caustic wit. He remained active until his death at age 94. Shaw won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature and remains the only person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize

Memorable Quotations from George Orwell

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Memorable Quotations from George Orwell
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George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (1903–50), was an English writer. Several of his works, like Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and Homage to Catalonia (1938), are autobiographical and sociopolitical. Animal Farm (1946) is a fable about the failure of communism, and his prophetic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) portrays a totalitarian world. His literary essays are favorably regarded.

Memorable Quotations from German Philosophers

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Memorable Quotations from German Philosophers
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Memorable Quotations from German Philosophers
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The remarkable German philosophers included in this book are Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach, Georg Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schlegel, and Arthur Schopenhauer.

Memorable Quotations from Great American Novelists

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Memorable Quotations from Great American Novelists
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The great American novelists included in this book are Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Pearl S. Buck, Truman Capote, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Kate Chopin, James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, William Dean Howells, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack Kerouac, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Herman Melville, Alice Duer Miller, Arthur Miller, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Anais Nin, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Mario Puzo, Ayn Rand, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Laura Riding, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Judith Rossner, Carl Sandburg, George Santayana, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Styron, Booth Tarkington, Mark Twain, Jessamyn West, Edith Wharton, Tennessee Williams, and Thomas Wolfe.

Memorable Quotations from Great Military Leaders

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Memorable Quotations from Great Military Leaders
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The great military leaders included in this book are Alexander the Great, Simón Bolivar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Omar Bradley, Julius Caesar, Chief Joseph, Chief Seattle, Oliver Cromwell, Moshe Dayan, Charles De Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ferdinand Foch, Ulysses S. Grant, Nathanael Greene, William Henry Harrison, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Patrick Henry, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, .T. E. Lawrence, Douglas MacArthur, George Catlett Marshall, Horatio Nelson, Franklin Pierce, Sir Walter Raleigh, Erwin Rommel, Sun Tzu, Zachary Taylor, George Washington, Xenophon and Mao Zedong.

Memorable Quotations from Henry David Thoreau

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Memorable Quotations from Henry David Thoreau
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Memorable Quotations from Henry David Thoreau
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Born in 1817, Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book "Walden," a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, "Civil Disobedience," an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Memorable Quotations from Henry Miller

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Memorable Quotations from Henry Miller
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Born in New York City, Henry Miller (1891–1980) was an American author. He lived in Paris in the 1930s and afterwards settled in Big Sur, California. His provocative novels, mixing candid sexual description, autobiographical incident, and conjecture on philosophy, literature, and society, include Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939), both banned in the United States until 1961, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion (1949–60). He also wrote an excellent travel book, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941); essays; and the autobiography My Life and Times (1972).

Memorable Quotations from Irish Playwrights

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Memorable Quotations from Irish Playwrights
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Memorable Quotations from Irish Playwrights
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This book offers the reader a selection of thought-provoking quotations from great Irish playwrights, including Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Susannah Centlivre, George Farquhar, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Oliver Goldsmith, Lady Gregory, Charles Macklin, George Moore, Arthur Murphy, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sir Richard Steele, J. M. Synge, Oscar Wilde, and W. B. Yeats.

Memorable Quotations from James Thurber

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Memorable Quotations from James Thurber
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Memorable Quotations from James Thurber
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Born in Ohio, James Thurber (1894–1961) was an American humorist. He was a staff member (1927–33) of and major contributor to the New Yorker magazine. A profound psychological perception underlies his reflective, ironical cartoons and stories. Compilations of his works include The Owl in the Attic (1931), The Thurber Carnival (1945), and Thurber Country (1953). He collaborated with E.B. White on the satire Is Sex Necessary? (1929) and with Elliott Nugent on the play The Male Animal (1940).

Memorable Quotations from John Kenneth Galbraith

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Memorable Quotations from John Kenneth Galbraith
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Memorable Quotations from John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century political liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950's through the 2000's and he filled the role of public intellectual from the 1950's to the 1970's on matters of economics.

Memorable Quotations from Joseph Conrad

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Memorable Quotations from Joseph Conrad
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Born in Poland, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was an English novelist. After a stretch at sea (during which he became a British subject), he began (1894) writing novels in English, an acquired language, and ultimately became one of the greatest prose stylists in English literature. Noteworthy early works include The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), and the novellas Youth (1902), Heart of Darkness (1902), and Typhoon (1903). A genius at creating character and atmosphere, Conrad powerfully portrayed individuals suffering from isolation and moral disintegration, and the clash between colonized cultures and European colonizers. His finest works include Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915).

Memorable Quotations from Oscar Wilde

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Memorable Quotations from Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer who exalted beauty for itself alone. His genius was best conveyed in his splendidly witty plays, especially The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). In his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), a young man is corrupted by sensual excess and moral apathy. Wilde's poems The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) and De Profundis (1905) were motivated by the prison term (1895–97) he served because of his homosexuality. He additionally wrote short stories, fairy tales, and essays.

Memorable Quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Memorable Quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The brilliant British philosophers included in this remarkable collection of quotations include Sir Alfred J. Ayer, Francis Bacon, Roger Bacon, Jeremy Bentham, F. H. Bradley, Edmund Burke, R. G. Collingwood, Ralph J. Cudworth, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Reid, Bertrand Russell, Herbert Spencer, Alfred North Whitehead, and William of Occam.

Memorable Quotations from Sports Figures

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Memorable Quotations from Sports Figures
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This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, great thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of famous sports figures, including Hank Aaron, Muhammad Ali, Sparky Anderson, Arthur Ashe, Charles Barkley, Yogi Berra, Terry Bradshaw, Harry Caray, Roberto Clemente, Dale Earnhardt, Chris Evert, Wayne Gretzky, Lou Holtz, Sam Huff, Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, Billie Jean King, Bobby Knight, Tommy Lasorda, Vince Lombardi, John Madden, John McEnroe, Jack Nicklaus, Chuck Noll, Tom Osborne, Satchel Paige, Arnold Palmer, Joe Paterno, Bum Phillips, Pat Riley, Art Rooney, Ayrton Senna, George Steinbrenner, John Wooden, Tiger Woods, and Al Davis.

Memorable Quotations from The Marquis de Sade

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Memorable Quotations from The Marquis de Sade
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Donatien Alphonse François, comte de Sade (1740–1814) was a French author known as The Marquis de Sade. Charged with several sexual offenses, he spent 27 years in prisons or asylums, writing lewd romances, including Justine (1791). He hypothesized that since sexual deviation and criminal acts exist in nature they are natural; this notion foreshadowed modern psychological thought. Sadism, the infliction of pain to achieve sexual pleasure, is named for him.

Memorable Quotations from Theodore Roosevelt

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Memorable Quotations from Theodore Roosevelt
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Born in New York, Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States (1901–9). The frail son of a prominent family, he made resolute efforts to overcome the fragile health that would significantly affect his character. After graduating (1880) from Harvard, he served (1882–84) as a Republican state legislator. Bereft by the deaths (1884) of his mother and his wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, he retreated to his ranch in the Dakota Territory. Returning to New York in 1886, he wed Edith Kermit Carow and served on the Civil Service Commission, as head (1895–97) of the New York City police board, and as assistant secretary (1897–98) of the navy. In 1898 he established, with Leonard Wood, the Rough Riders regiment that fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War; he came home a hero. He was elected (1900) vice president under William McKinley, and upon McKinley's assassination in Sept. 1901 became president at the age of 42. An activist and an inventive leader, he set about “trust busting” by instigating some 40 lawsuits against the big trusts. He also fathered significant conservation legislation. His championship of the rights of the “little man” captured the people's imagination, and he was reelected (1904) by a landslide. His second administration ensured passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. His progressive reforms directed at regulation, not elimination, of big business. Roosevelt conclusively increased the power of the president, principally in foreign affairs. Asserting that the U.S. had the right to enforce order in Latin America, he intervened (1903) in a civil war in Panama to promote construction of the Panama Canal. He mediated (1904) the end of the Russo-Japanese War, for which he won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. Though he had hand-picked William Howard Taft to succeed him, he became irritated at Taft's obvious lack of progressive principles and split the Republican party in 1912 by running for president as the third-party Progressive, or Bull Moose, candidate. He outpolled Taft but lost the election. Throughout his busy career he found time for big game hunting and for writing numerous books.

Memorable Quotations from Thomas Jefferson

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Memorable Quotations from Thomas Jefferson
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Born in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was the 3rd president of the United States. A member (1769–75) of the Virginia house of burgesses, he was a leader of the patriot group. At the Second Continental Congress he drafted the Declaration of Independence, a historic document that exhibits his indebtedness to John Locke and other philosophers. In 1779 he became governor of Virginia, steering that state through the difficult last years of the American Revolution. In 1785 he became minister to France. Appointed secretary of state (1790–93) in President George Washington's cabinet, Jefferson defended agrarian interests against the Federalist policies of Alexander Hamilton and led a group called the Republicans, predecessors of the present-day Democratic Party. He served as vice president (1797–1801) and disputed the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts by writing the Kentucky Resolutions. The Republicans triumphed at the polls in 1800, but Aaron Burr, who had been slated to become vice president, tied Jefferson in the presidential vote. Jefferson was finally chosen president by the House of Representatives, largely on the recommendation of Hamilton, who considered Jefferson less dangerous than Burr. Jefferson was the first president inaugurated in Washington, a city he had helped to plan. He established a republican simplicity in the city and cut federal expenditures. He thought that the federal government should be concerned primarily with foreign affairs, leaving local matters to the states and community authorities. Regularly rigorous in interpreting the Constitution, he pushed through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, an act that it did not explicitly authorize. He also devised the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During his second administration, problems arose from attacks on neutral U.S. shipping by the warring superpowers of Britain and France. With such measures as the Embargo Act of 1807 he attempted to use economic pressure to achieve a solution, but this stirred strong opposition in the U.S. In retirement after 1809 at his much-loved home, Monticello, Jefferson brought about the creation of the University of Virginia and continued his enduring interests in science, architecture, philosophy, and the arts.

Chinese Proverbs

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Chinese Proverbs
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The allure of Chinese proverbs is intense and global. With conciseness, lucidity, and economy, these prudently selected words help pass insight and understanding throughout the epochs. This enduring, expressive collection of proverbs offers essential realities about the world and humanity.

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