YOURCENAR, Marguerite

Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; Marguerite Yourcenar

8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987

Birthplace: Brussels, Belgium

Belgian-French-American author & translator

YOURCENAR, Marguerite

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American Authors Belgian Educators French

YOURCENAR, Marguerite

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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Authors Civil Rights Activists & Humanitarians Immigrants Nobel Prize Recipients Pakistani Young Authors, Speakers & Leaders

YOUSAFZI, Malala

YOUSAFZI, Malala

MALALA YOUSAFZI- Pakistani education & human rights activist – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE

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Ancient Greeks & Romans Aphorists Authors Educators Greek Philosophers

ZENO of Citium

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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American Authors Civil Rights Activists & Humanitarians Commentators, Critics & Pundits Educators Historians New York (birthplace) Playwrights & Screenplay Authors Political Theorists Uncategorized

ZINN, Howard

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
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Authors Engineers Inventors Russian

ZWORYKIN, Vladimir

ZWORYKIN, Vladimir

Learn more about Vladimir Zworykin | Here are a few good places to start – Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (2006) National Academy of Sciences – ‘Biographical Memoir’ by Jan Rajchman: www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/zworykin-vladimir.pdf ‘Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame: Vladimir K. Zworykin’ (March 2009) Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) overview of Zworykin’s professional contributions, by James E. Brittain; online via Vdocuments: https://vdocuments.site/electrical-engineering-hall-of-fame-vladimir-k-zworykin-scanning-our-past.html ‘Vladimir Zworykin, Television Pioneer, Dies at 92’ (1 August 1982) New York Times obituary by Robert Thomas Jr.: nytimes.com/1982/08/01/obituaries/vladimir-zworykin-television-pioneer-dies-at-92.html   Image link: ZWORYSKIN, Vladimir Kosma (1929) with Mildred Birt, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., Demonstrating new cathode ray TV tube, No known restrictions, SIA 90-105 [SIA2010-1667], Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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