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HAINSTOCK, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Ann ‘Penny’ Gros, Elizabeth Gros Hainstock, Elizabeth G. Hainstock, Penny Hainstock, Elizabeth Hainstock

Born: 29 June 1940

Birthplace: Palo Alto, California

American author & educator

HAINSTOCK, Elizabeth

ELIZABETH G. HAINSTOCK – American author & educator – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE

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INGE, William Ralph

William Ralph Inge

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CitationMisquotesContextSource LinkCitation “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” ~Henry Kissinger, German-American statesman “Reflections on Containment” (May/June 1994) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3, p. 130; online via JSTOR [subscription service] www.jstor.org Misquotes Misquote notes: A number of sources attribute a paraphrased version of Kissinger’s quote to his original Foreign Affairs article: Actual - “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Misquote - “A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Source note: The

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LERNER, Max

Michael Lerner

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LEWIS, Anthony

ANTHONY LEWIS – Author Quotes

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NABOKOV, Vladimir

CitationMisquotesContextSource ISBNCitation “Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.” ~Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author “Commentary” (1962) Pale Fire, New York, NY: G.P.Putnam’s Sons, p. 272 Misquotes Re-quote note: Although Nabokov didn't include commas in his original line, it is often paraphrased with additional punctuation: “Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.” Context Extended excerpt [Fiction. Punctuation is original to cited source.]: “If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.” (p. 272) Source ISBN Source: Library -

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PLANCK, Max

Max Planck

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RANDALL, J.G.

JAMES G. RANDALL – American author, educator & historian – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE

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YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny

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YOURCENAR, Marguerite

CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A man who reads, reflects, or plans belongs to a species rather than to his sex; in his best moments he rises even above the human.” ~Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) trans. Grace Frick, New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1955, p. 165; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Fictional autobiography of the Roman Emperor Hadrian]: “I should have desired more: to see the human creature unadorned, alone with herself as she indeed must have been at least sometimes, in illness or after the death of a first-born child, or when a wrinkle began to show in her mirror. A

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ZENO of Citium

CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” ~Zeno of Citium, Greek philosopher Cited by Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (3rd century) trans. Robert Drew (R.D.) Hicks, Book VII, chapter 1, no. 26, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972 [first published 1925]; online via Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, www.perseus.tufts.edu Context Extended excerpt [Cited by Diogenes Laërtius, an ancient historian of Greek philosophy & philosophers. None of Zeno’s work survived to the modern era.]: “When he was asked why he, though so austere, relaxed at a drinking-party, he said, “Lupins too are bitter, but when they are soaked become sweet.” Hecato too in the second book

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ZINN, Howard

CitationContextSource LinkCitation “History can suggest to us alternatives that we would never otherwise consider. It can both warn and inspire. It can warn us that it is possible for a whole nation to be brainwashed, for “enlightened” and “educated” people to commit genocide, for a “democratic” country to maintain slavery, for oppressed to turn into oppressors, for “socialism” to be tyrannical and “liberalism” to be imperialist, for whole peoples to be led to war like sheep. It can also show us that apparently powerless underlings can defeat their rulers, that men (for at least most moments of time) can live like brothers, that men can make incredible sacrifices on behalf

HAINSTOCK, Elizabeth

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