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“My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.”

I Can Ends Taken Mouths Claims Bread Settling Paris Rejection Alas Hesitation Salons

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.”

Ends Wise Claims Be Good

Book:The farthest shore

Source: The farthest shore

“When I started making enough money to afford high-end, fancy skincare products with sexy bottles and impressive claims, I decided to give them a try. As a result my skin acted up and got irritated. I think sometimes women may be overcleansing their skin. Some products and masks can be too aggressive and irritating for certain skin types. I believe the more simple, natural, and easy the skin care regime, the better off your skin will be.”

“Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.”

Years Ends Growth Known Support Position Arms Kings Fame Resources Claims Dues Greek Empires Thrones Diplomacy Philip Prowess Macedonia Cordiality

Author:Diodorus Siculus

“The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.”

Has Beens Ends Self Social Interest Results Claims Arrangements Self Interest

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.”

“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”

Should Years Long Different Ends Self Moments Used House Youth Poet Garden Claims Disappointment Fixed Long Ago Pilgrimage

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.”

“Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.”

Men Years Ends God Three Nations Party Struggle Conditions Claims Expected Three Years

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.”

World Mean Ends Time Realizing Memories Sin Secret Gone Sadness Willing Late Claims Stranger Passing Admire Passings Too Late Time Passing Time Passes Secret Life Admiring Insufficiency

Author:Alexander Theroux

“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.”

Men Giving Wells Ends Done Might Certain Freedom Known Struggle He Man Giving Up Claims Aim Currents Committed Chosen Customs Jumping Usage Yoke Niagara Jumping In

Author:Anna Brackett

“We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.”

Mean Ends Party Support Claims England Minorities Loyal Ireland Scotland

Author:Bonar Law

“No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.”

Wells Ends Life Is Individual Generations Eternity Claims Environmental Sustainability Succession Participating Individual Life

Book:Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

“What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.”

“The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end in itself, it became identified with Augustine's earthly city and lost all claims to a higher sanction than the law of force and self-interest. Without justice, what is a great kingdom but a great robbery, magnum latrocinium?”

Source: The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity

“They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial because of his or her background or ethnicity or race. It's, I guess, a small comfort that in the end the Brandeis vote wasn't close.”

Way Said Ideas Ends Race Too Much Particular Judging Comfort Vote Claims Currents Ugly Hearing Nine Backgrounds They Said Ethnicity Louis Brandeis

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.”

Years Two Ends Christian Thousand Claims Jew Thousand Years End Times

Author:Tom Robbins

“In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs or working for less, trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge [Samuel] Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of the individual citizens. He has acted instead in favor of government, large corporations and other powerful interests.”

Trying Ends Government Jobs Individual Interest Powerful Cases Judging Citizens Losing Claims Majority Favors Eras Corporations

Author:Edward Kennedy

“We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.”

Ends Able Support Air Claims Strikes Partners Isis Kurdish

Author:Hillary Clinton

“In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, "Maybe they do...maybe stories matter."”

Said Ends Matter Stories Guy Paper Claims Comment Desks Airports Scrap Luggage Minneapolis Despereaux

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.”

Ends Wisdom Values Religious Source Claims Tendencies Allies Fanaticism Partisans Religious Fanatics

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.”

Source: The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories

“I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)”

Ifs Thinking Men May Said Ends Enough Dies Known Havens Claims Credit

Author:Barbara Mertz

“Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.”

Way Littles Ends Moving Song Watches Laughing Feet Stage Drink Bed Pages Claims Dresses Fingers My Way Dawn Sweat Swear Foe Here And There Hail Another Day

Book:Dorothy Parker

Source: Dorothy Parker

“Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.”

Humans Ends Natural Race Dying Claims Human Race Fake Fitting

Book:Wither

Source: Wither

“Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the clouds as mine. I owe it to the peerless stars Which flame in the remotest sky That I see only with spent eyes Remembered suns I knew before. In vain I had at heart to find The center and the end of space. Beneath some burning, unknown gaze I feel my very wings unpinned And, burned because I beauty loved, I shall not know the highest bliss, And give my name to the abyss Which waits to claim me as its own.”

“This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?”

Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Doe Ends Suffering Strong Animal Imagine Crazy Taste Eating Claims Killing Hungry Ethical Experimentation Horny Animal Experimentation

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together - a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else. If we try to produce it by the atomistic approach, we will end up with a sort of Identikit brand. It will be a perfect description of the structure of the brand, as the Identikit can describe the contours of the face. But it won't be the same thing. The brand will never come to life.”

Ifs Trying Ends Reason Together Faces Bits Perfect Numbers Business Produce Approach Shots Claims Structure Campaigns Brands Reason Why Description Packs Somewhere Else

Author:Stephen King

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.”

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.”

Knows World Doe Stills I Can Ends Home Asks Challenges Land Claims Brave Wave Ask Me Flags Memorial Memorial Day Anthem National Anthem Land Of The Free

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.”

Ends Religion Belief Answers Results Share Atheism Evidence Claims Myth Cosmos Resemblance

Book:River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

“In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.”

“More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.”

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