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“You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.”

Quote by Brian P. Cleary

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Brian P. Cleary

Born on October 1, 1959, Brian P. Cleary is a renowned poet known for his humorous and insightful poetry. His works, often educational in nature, are celebrated for their unique style and have gained popularity among children and parents alike. more

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“Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.”

Stories Kids Asks Enjoy Laughing Jokes Adults Bored Funny Story

Author:Brian P. Cleary

“I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.”

Book Written Speech All Things Sentences Covered Alphabet Punctuation Parts Of Speech

Author:Brian P. Cleary

“If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.”

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Author:Brian P. Cleary

“There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture — that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.”

Made Found Ready Poet Musician Discovery Painter

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.”

Giving Use Past Courses Events Information Depends Circumstances Evidence Aim Instruments Uniformity Transcending Supposing Past Experiences Supposing That

Book:The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.”

Has Beens Belief Struggle Our Lives Circumstances Complexes Various Breathe Atmosphere Labour Conception Forefathers

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.”

May Helping Race Alive Sentences Village Superstitions Rustic

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.”

Believe Heart Action Committed Lust Prompts

Book:Lectures and Essays

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“If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.”

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Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

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