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“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”

Knows Men Race Pieces Victory Conscience Accounts Triumph Accommodations Mosaics Composites

Book:The Last Castle

Source: The Last Castle

“There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information , obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.”

World Way Different Facts Problem Pieces Events Information Source Benefits Accounts Details Lists Best Way Curious Different Ways Uniforms Coincidence Domain Comprehensive Presenting

Book:Farewell to Reason

Source: Farewell to Reason

“Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?”

Pieces Wife Accounts Dust Grieving Valiant Benedick

Author:William Shakespeare

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”

Ifs Men Firsts Science Common Pieces Accounts Patient Rate Common Sense Plenty Furniture Chamber Quip

Book:THE

Source: THE

“Aggregating is only a part of what we do: HuffPost offers a combination of original blog posts (approximately 200 a day), original reporting, syndicated news (like from AP) that we pay for, and licensed content (via content-sharing partnerships). Original blog posts and pieces from our reporters account for more than 40 percent of all content viewed on HuffPost.”

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Author:Arianna Huffington

“The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.”

I Can Kids Games Pieces Accounts Expenses Bowls Great Times Super Bowl Lame Nickels Had A Great Time

Author:Andy Rooney

“More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.”

Writing Two War Hands Hours Pieces Four Wind Drama Offers Accounts Golf Memorable Controlled Tape Herbs Correspondence Gallipoli

Book:Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

Source: Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

“Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.”

Knows Real Matter God Government Law Science Force Pieces Creation Ignorance Mouths Accounts Infinite Doctrine Ignorant Code Abandon Priests Deities Interpreter

Book:An Oration on the Gods

Source: An Oration on the Gods

“'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'”

Way Science Pieces Offers Devil Accounts Unexpected Priests Cried

Author:George Herbert

“Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.”

Ifs Men Wells Self Seems Science Natural Pieces Objects Accounts Former Faster Planes Nothingness Bizarre Conceit Unnatural Critique Slipping Copernicus

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil to account for the oranges she had sold, as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.”

Writing War Helping Motivational Young Girl Fighting Powerful Saws Pieces Paper Accounts Mark Selling Educate Orange Pencils Like Her

Author:Malala Yousafzai