John Ruskin Quotes
You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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A woman's paradise is under her husband's foot
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Chose to ignore or distort the clear evidence.
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
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Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever
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It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.
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It’s rare, he says, that we “encounter a person who asserts vehemently that the mere thought of reading a novel, or looking at a picture, or seeing a movie causes him insufferable torment,” but “sensible, educated people” often say “with a remarkable blend of defiance and pride” that math is “pure torture” or a “nightmare” that “turns them off.”
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You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
