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“Among history’s greatest literary figures, Dickens’ name is listed alongside Shakespeare’s. He was the most widely read author of his time. Soldiers in the American Civil War carried his books to read aloud around nightly campfires. He was more popular in Russia than many of the great Russian novelists. His twenty novels are all still in print, and he remains popular today.”
Source: Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
“Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.”
Source: A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book
“Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.”
“Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.”
Source: Russell on Ethics: Selections from the Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Among humans, the precondition for cooperation isn't similarity; it is the ability to exchange information. As long as we are able to converse, we might find some shared story that can bring us closer.”
Source: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.”
“Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.”
“Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.”
“Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.”
Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)
“Among items in the glass cold case were cheesecake, marzipan candies, The Owl & Moon's famous Chocolate Cherry Thunder fudge, and a round of sharp cheddar for the apple tarts. The nonrefrigerated case held all manner of pastries, sweet rolls, and berry pies. When the buckwheat rolls came out of the oven they went directly into pink boxes tied with kite string.”
Source: The Owl & Moon Cafe
“Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.”
Source: Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories
“Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.”
“Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.”
“Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.”
“Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If you criticize any poor and black person who displays inappropriate, boorish or egregiously bad conduct, you'll be dismissed as a racist if you're not black. And as an Uncle Tom or sellout if you are.”
“Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.”
“Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.”
“Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.”
“Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been.”
“Among mankind’s greatest faults is his a) kindness, b) generosity, c) fortitude, d) contentment, e) vanity. That was debatable. But the Pythagorean theorem was not, and if the civilian Uri was one side and the soldier Uri was the other, the true him was the hypotenuse, slanted opposite, the squared sum of both.”
Source: Moving Kings
“Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.”
“Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which above all things should be avoided, and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship which they do not profess.”
Source: Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress,: Written, During the War Between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by His Excellency, George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, Now President of the United States
“Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.”
Source: The Rambler
“Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.”
“Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.”
“Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by cannibals!" At last I replied, "Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms."”
Source: John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907
“among married couples the person who actually makes out the mortgage check is likely to be more cautious about spending money than the person who doesn't. There is something sobering about sending away that much money every month in the knowledge that, rain or shine, you'll have to come up with the same amount of money the next month and the month after that.”
Source: About Alice
“Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.”
Source: The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 Before Members of the Congress of Mathematics Held in Connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill
“Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.”
Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
“Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.”
Source: Here On Earth
“Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the coordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved.”
“Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.”
“Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.”
“Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.”
“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”
Source: The Tragedies of Euripides
“Among most of the peoples that anthropologists are familiar with, true manhood is a precious and elusive status beyond mere maleness, a hortatory image that men and boys aspire to and that their culture demands of them as a measure of belonging.”
Source: Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
“Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.”
“Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.”
“Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.”
“Among my friends love is a great sorrow.”
Source: City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
“Among my friends love is a great sorrow.
It has become a daily burden, a feast,
a gluttony for fools, a heart's famine.
We visit one another asking, telling one another.
We do not burn hotly, we question the fire.
We do not fall forward with our alive
eager faces looking thru into the fire.
We stare back into our own faces.
We have become our own realities.
We seek to exhaust our lovelessness.”
“Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.”
“Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term - is that fund managers have been passive participants in corporate governance.”
“Among my greatest loves is the act of being pinned and invaded – not by one, or two or three, but by many, one after the other. What it is to lose yourself among many, so that your identity exists only as ‘woman’: a goddess of flesh and desire. No names, no promises, no social niceties, no conversational conventions: only lust and fulfillment.”
Mademoiselle Noire - in The Gentlemen's Club”
Source: The Gentlemen's Club
“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
“Among my people, scars are revered. They are never hidden.'
The only scar he could see was the one along the side of my waist. At least, I hoped. 'Among my people, it's not polite to stare at a naked woman in a bathtub.'
'Your people sound incredibly boring.'
'Get out!' I shrieked.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Among my steps, time stretches, and breath becomes deep, the mind frees itself, the body rejuvenates.”
Source: Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow
“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”
Source: Seconds Before Sunrise
“Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.”