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“So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.”

Has Beens Simple Results Sea Judging Source Holy Judgment Miracle Denied Flood Babe

Book:Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare

“TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.”

Firsts Has Beens States Father Natural Conditions Source Authority Ancient Obvious Bored Fancy Latin Hymns Ennui Tedium

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.”

Has Beens Art Used Born Modern Source Art Is Photographer Painter Modernism Copyright Modern Art Upheaval

Book:EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

Source: EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

“The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout all Christendom, and which has been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious.”

Source: Journal of Discourses

“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.”

“Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.”

Wells Persons Has Beens Done Inspiration Jobs Source Dedicated Well Done Source Of Inspiration

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.”

Humans Has Beens Important Today Roles Source Majors Plant Accepted Meat Diets Unlikely

Author:Jane Goodall

“Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.”

Writing Has Beens Source Satisfaction Editors

Author:Bill Keller

“Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.”

Believe Has Beens Enough Problem Today Social Community Source Accounts Rapids Breakdown Social Problems Rapid Change

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Syria has allowed its soil to be transited by foreign fighters who have come from a variety of source countries in the Gulf area and in the - in North African countries.There are some signs that that may have been reduced somewhat in the last couple of months. We need to watch that a bit and see if that is the case.”

Ifs Needs May Has Beens Country Lasts Bits Watches Cases Source Months Couple Areas Fighter Variety Soil Syria

Author:David Petraeus

“The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.”

Has Beens Political Opinion Economy Source Depends Demand Errors Proportion Commodity Axioms Political Economy Supply And Demand

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.”

Source: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

“A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Made Book Matter Bigs Film Given Fans Subjects Source Hollywood Being True Budgets Treatment Subject Matter Loathe Ifs And Hollywood Films

Author:Richard Laymon

“If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.”

Ifs Men Mean Has Beens Desire Objects Source Authority Sufficient Abundance Injury Possessed Disputes

Book:The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica

Source: The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Has Beens War Seems Lying Social Poor Behinds Violence Groups Produce Source Research Historical Historian Murderer Avoided Parental Abusive Mothering Sociologists Historical Research

Author:Lloyd deMause

“I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.”

“The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.”

Has Beens Wisdom Politics Common Economy Source Paper Property Various Liberalism Distribution Factions Federalist Federalist Papers

Author:James Madison

“This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.”

Men Way Has Beens Passion Evil Atheism Source Safety Positive Atheism Temptation Insulting Coarse Valve

Book:Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History

Source: Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History

“It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.”

Has Beens Government Religion Source Reviews

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.”

Has Beens Desire Source Fulfilled

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.”

Has Beens Moments Huge Source Intimate Life And Death Moments Of Life Source Of Strength

Author:Bear Grylls

“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Suffering Speak Source Dare Timidity

Book:John Adams

Source: John Adams

“But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.”

Should Children Has Beens Source Our Children Scary Classroom

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Helping Law Evil Lost Brother Source Needed Highest Tradition Makers Mistaken Crippled Pitiful Subordination

Author:Clara Barton

“God wants to supply your needs from a place you never expected, through people you never knew, in ways you never thought, but first you have to believe that it is possible. Once you understand that His ability to meet your needs is bigger than your job or your business, you will find that your source of life is bigger than the resources that you have been accumulating.”

People Way Want Needs Firsts Believe Has Beens Jobs Life Is Ability Source Resources Bigger Expected Source Of Life

Author:Myles Munroe

“Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.”

Long Has Beens Made Important Ideas Written Source Long Time Journalism Journalist

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs; there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit.”

People Needs Humans Has Beens Enough Energy Emotional Source Pursuit Endless Consumers Goods Excess Consumption Making People Happy Energy Sources Emotional Needs No Energy

Author:Tim DeChristopher

“I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.”

World Has Beens Government Special This World Source Privilege Inequality Granted

Author:Milton Friedman

“Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.”

Has Beens Motivation Wealth Rich Produce Source Bounds Greed Concrete Accusation

Book:Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal

“How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“Beware of advice. Consider your sources carefully. Look them up. See if you respect what they've made. Get educated. Be informed about who's real and who isn't. Study your craft and your industry, practice all the time, challenge yourself - write things you think you can't, try things you have been told you shouldn't try - leave room for surprises, and learn how to collaborate.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Looks Has Beens Made Real Challenges Rooms Practice Study Advice Source Industry Surprise Educated Crafts Challenge Yourself

Author:Karen Walton

“Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to killing me, and of course they have killed very large numbers of other Iraqis. That's a major source of strength for Muqtada.”

Has Beens Young Courses Numbers Dangerous Source Majors Killing Large Numbers Source Of Strength Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.”

Writing Has Beens Stories Jobs Silence Source You Choose Free Yourself Journaling

Author:Christina Baldwin

“To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing has happened, that ugly phenomenon has happened, because all your creative sources have been plugged, blocked, destroyed, and your whole energy has been forced into some activity that the society thinks is going to pay.”

Thinking Has Beens Whole Energy Pay Creative Impossible Happened Source Activity Ugly Destroyed Phenomenon Be Creative Blocked Impossible Things

Author:Rajneesh

“So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.”

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.”

Mind Has Beens Source Irritation Levi Strauss

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.”

“Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth”

Years May Has Beens Ends Form Wealth Stage Divine Flower Source Limits Late Lows Dancing Mere Glorious This Day Phases Inward Professionalism Fading Frivolous Proficiency May Flowers

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?”

“The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.”

Has Beens States Problem Grows Source Chaos Disorder

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.”

Has Beens Process Wealth Source Possession Indifferent Fertile

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.”

“Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.”

“These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all the warts can be removed. But returning to the source of a thing - the real source - means the photographer has to watch, dig, listen for voices, sniff the smells, and have many doubts. My life in photography has been lived as a skeptic.”

Mean Has Beens Made Real Seems Voice Watches Doubt Source Photography Photographer Smell These Days Skeptic Pristine Warts

Author:Jerome Liebling

“Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country.”

“I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.”

Humans Has Beens Earth Social Hours Century Materials Source Liberation Electricity 20th Century Proliferation Inexpensive

Author:Ross McKitrick

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