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“The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.”

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Robert Briffault

Robert Briffault (1876-1948) was an outstanding surgeon whose contributions to the field of medicine, particularly in anatomy and physiology, were significant. His work had a profound impact on the development of modern medicine. more

“Our world can be moved Godward only by leaders who have shared to a deep degree the heartbreak as He looks in compassion and love on the world. Until you sense the suffering tears in the heart of God, until you share to some extent our Saviors suffering passion in Gethsemane, until you come close enough to God to enable the Spirit to yearn within you with His infinite and unutterable yearnings, you are not prepared to minister about the cross.”

World Looks Heart Enough Spirit Suffering Passion Compassion Leader Share Tears Degrees Crosses And Love Infinite Moved Prepared Ministers Our World Savior Yearning Within You Gethsemane

Book:Ablaze for God

Source: Ablaze for God

“What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?”

Men Self Reason Whole God Spirit Universe Higher Honor Capable Worthy Reverence Contemplating Sublime Tents

Author:Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

“Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.”

People Children Helping Taken Helping Others Museums Broadway Helping Other People Felons Broadway Musical

Author:Paul Rudnick

“Comfort, however, easily merges into license.”

Comfort License

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre.' Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.”

Looks May Travel Europe Thirds Surprise Spheres Asia Bizarre Similarity Pacific Surveys

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.”

Spiritual Form Culture Cities Study Economic Fixed Interaction Phases Vitality Florence

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.”

Mean Doe Facts Force Process History Economic Events Determined Chiefs Interpretation Recurring

Author:Eduard Bernstein

“Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere”

Ifs Mind Seems Today Path Willing

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

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