Tag "Life"
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RADNER, Gilda
GILDA RADNER, American comedian & actor – Author Quotes
JAMES, John Angell
JOHN ANGELL JAMES – English clergyman & author – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
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YOUSAFZI, Malala
MALALA YOUSAFZI- Pakistani education & human rights activist – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
NELSON, Willie
WILLIE NELSON – American country music singer-songwriter, actor & activist – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
KERR, Jean
CitationContextSource IDCitation “A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and then have the patient sit up on the table.” ~Jean Kerr, American author & playwright Mary, Mary (1960) Script, Act I; New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1965 revised ed., p. 33 Context Extended excerpt [Play dialogue - character ‘Oscar’ to ‘Bob’ & ‘Mary’]: “OSCAR. (Crosses U.R.C., eyeing them both.) Please don’t be embarrassed on my account. I’m delighted. I hate a friendly divorce. A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and
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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
GILBERT, Elizabeth
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert, American author Committed: A Love Story (2010) London: Bloomsbury, 2010, p. 101 Context Extended excerpt [From chapter four – ‘Marriage and Infatuation’]: “The problem with infatuation, of course, is that it’s a mirage, a trick of the eye – indeed, a trick of the endocrine system. Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job. When you become infatuated with somebody, you’re not
GOODMAN, Paul
CitationContextSource IDCitation “It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft that man becomes something.” ~Paul Goodman, American author & social critic The Community of Scholars (1962) New York, NY: Random House, p. 175 Context Extended excerpt [Nonfiction]: “The principle of the studium generale is that civilization has been a continual gift of the creator spirit; it consists of inventions, discoveries, insights, art works, highly theorized institutions, and methods of workmanship. All of this has vastly accumulated over the ages and become very unwieldy, yet, in the spirit, it is always appropriable. As Socrates would have said, it’s meaning can be recalled. The advantage of recalling it
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FISHER, Dorothy Canfield
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER – Author Quotes
RAND, Ayn
AYN RAND – Russian-American author, philosopher & screenwriter – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE