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“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.”

“In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.”

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.”

Believe Reason I Believe Growth Periods Atmosphere Discussion Remarkable

Author:Akio Morita

“One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.”

Wells May Long Has Beens Reason Use Ability Periods Distance Chiefs Long Distance Horseshoes

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.”

Ifs Knows Years Kind Reason Play Music Pieces Periods Guitar Woods Violin Violinist Resonating

Author:Dave Genn

“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”

World Reason Political Powerful Leader Century Periods Enlightenment Europe Tradition Roots Employed Better Place Political Leaders

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.”

Thinking Should Reason Light Issues Judging Periods Charity Unnoticed Charity Work Shedding Light

Author:Liya Kebede

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

“I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Reason Order Reading Periods Love Of Reading

Author:Philippa Gregory

“One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.”

“True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything.”

Men World Mind May Long Has Beens Real Reason Feelings Past Particular Periods Circumstances Depression Long Time Men And Women Unhappy No Reason Worldly Fog Real Things Times Past

Author:J. E. Buckrose

“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.”

“A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.”

Firsts Children Reason Energy Force Teaching Periods Sensitive Initials Force And Energy

Author:Maria Montessori

“My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.”

People Years Stills Ideas Reason Might Political Certain Politics Term Forget Alive Return Periods Office Mass Regard Independence Governors Fixing Public Good Term Limits

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.”

Reason Seems Certain Actors Periods Eclectic

Author:Hugh Grant

“Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.”

Looks Reason Eye Views History Particular Periods Very Good Definitions Critical Accepted Historian Episodes Skepticism Historic

Author:Paul Johnson

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Reason Dream Reality America Events Internet Periods Taste Weakness Satire Intolerance Free Speech Euphemism Conjunctions Wildest Dreams

Author:Robert Hughes

“Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.”

Reason Bigs Political House Party Talking Middle Periods Rounds Feminist Dinner No Reason Justification Dinner Party Anecdotes Sofas

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!”

Ifs Thinking Reason Facts Periods Fallen

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“As the head of the government, it is my responsibility to make the overriding political goals and relationships more clear. Part of the reason the public didn't understand some of the reforms enacted during the past legislative period was that there was far too much talk about the details, while the general picture often remained invisible.”

Reason Government Past Political Goal Responsibility Clear Too Much Periods Details Invisible Reform

Author:Angela Merkel

“We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped in debt, if they once fall into bankruptcy. The reason that the law was changed in American history - the whole early period of the formation of the country was moving away from British law into a law that is generated here and that conforms to the sense of what is appropriate here.”

People Ifs Made Country Reason Whole Moving Law Fall Changed Periods British Debt Reform Appropriate American History Conform Formation Bankruptcy Moving Away

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.”

Should Long Reason Spirit Periods Lessons Horse Leaving Stable Bores Fatigue

Author:Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

“In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.”

Reason Used Energy Information Particular Planets Periods Destruction Safety Catastrophe

Book:The Robots' Rebellion – The Story of Spiritual Renaissance: David Icke’s History of the New World Order

Source: The Robots' Rebellion – The Story of Spiritual Renaissance: David Icke’s History of the New World Order

“Value investing strategies have worked for years and everyone's known about them. They continue to work because it's hard for people to do, for two main reasons. First, the companies that show up on the screens can be scary and not doing so well, so people find them difficult to buy. Second, there can be one-, two- or three-year periods when a strategy like this doesn't work. Most people aren't capable of sticking it out through that.”

People Years Firsts Wells Two Hard Reason Shows Values Three Difficult Company Known Periods Capable Strategy Investing Scary Screens Three Years Sticking It

Author:Joel Greenblatt

“One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.”

People Reason Actors Periods

Author:James Purefoy

“The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual... Ooh I like that..." That was the energy that kept me up.”

Long Different Reason Lasts Energy Sound Pieces Periods Caught Excitement Usual Adrenaline

Author:Marnie Stern

“I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.”

World Stills Ends Reason Today Remember Term Subjects Periods Happenings South Around The World Variety Affected South Africa World Today Apartheid Negotiating Pertinent Peace Talks

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.”

Thinking Way Long I Can Important Ideas Reason Sound Silence Environment Focus Periods Quiet Setting Settings Paradox Composing Long Periods Of Time Silence Love

Author:Tod Machover

“During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made.”

Made Reason Government Suffering Attention Responsibility Poverty Rights Land Periods Resources Essence Neglect Sovereign Tribes Treaties Time Periods

Author:Leonard Peltier

“I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.”

Mean Ideas Reason Song Happened Couple Periods Myth Gypsy Of Context

Author:Van Morrison

“Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our economy, which has already no doubt adapted to the current situation.”

Giving Believe Reason Situation Economy Doubt Periods Give Me Currents No Doubt Stable Adapted Uneasy Indicators Current Situation Microeconomics

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Personally, I am enthusiastic about the future. You can be too. You are living in the most exciting period of time in history. Many reasons could be cited for that optimism. Yet your greatest source of hope and assurance is that you have the fulness of the teachings of the Master. They will show you how to live a good life. You can receive ordinances and covenants that when righteously lived assure true happiness and significant attainment.”

Reason Shows Teaching Masters Source Periods Optimism Exciting Significant Good Life Assurance Enthusiastic True Happiness Attainment Covenant Ordinances

Author:Richard G. Scott

“The reason why feral kitties are hard to tame is because they have missed socialization the period - you need to be touching and petting those kittens when they are real young.”

Needs Real Hard Reason Young Periods Reason Why Touching Kitten Kitties Socialization

Author:Temple Grandin

“There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.”

Years Believe Reason Earth Three Millions Huge Periods Years Ago Destruction Species Scales Destroyed Massive Quarters Fifth Extinction Asteroids

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.”

Men Looks Stills Reason Problem Seems Might America Born Focus Youth Periods Racism Good Things Look Up Old Man Nuts Vietnam Fondness Heyday

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.”

People Knows Way Firsts Art Reason Moving Order Information Amount Needed Periods New Ways Caves Psychedelic Encyclopedia Psychedelic Experience New Way Of Life

Author:Howard Rheingold

“I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States. At this time of 1814, two nations who would eventually become close allies were at war with each other, so it doesn't quite fit.”

Thinking Looks Two War States Reason Jobs Certain Nations United United States Century Creation Periods Fit Patterns Allies Historian 20th Century Sequence Two Nations

Author:Steven Knight

“Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.”

Reason Comedy Periods British Accents

Author:Toks Olagundoye

“I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.”

Thinking World Reason Would Be Growth Modern Periods Moved Prison Posts Our Family Modern World

Author:Varg Vikernes

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