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“Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners”

Book Certain Common Subjects Accidents Collections Rats Worms Borrowing Damp Borrowers

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.”

People Should Remember Causes Term Subjects Hundred Prison Accidents Commit Expenses Traffic Participants Parades Inconvenience Nuisance Misdemeanors

Book:The Illiterate Digest

Source: The Illiterate Digest

“He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.”

Men Way Humans Stills States Shows Remember Evil Causes Conditions Subjects Changed Ordinary Accidents Threatened Recognizing Emperor Ordinary Man

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Matter Would Be Individual Wish Generations Influence Subjects Opposites Species Bones Accidents Flesh Reconcile Two Opposites External Influences

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.”

Said Dies Subjects Changed Eternal Remains Accidents Substance Composition Dissolution

Author:Giordano Bruno

“To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.”

May Joy Subjects Source Thousand Spring Accidents Aliens Inevitable Ministers Dependent Affliction Amusement Recreation Interruptions

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.”

People Life Mind Space Subjects Infinite Embrace Accidents Visible Infinity Mechanism Globes Infinite Space

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.”

People May Home Earth Bits Women Community Space Subjects Destruction Accidents Meaningful Resistance Fragile Shed Constructs Violation

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.”

Opinion Subjects Ignorance Accidents Minors Bernard Shaw

Author:Roger Scruton

“There is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these raise the most fundamental questions about the structure of society.”

Kind Shows Seems Deals Teaching Subjects Students Raises Fundamentals Structure Accidents Lowest Chasing Ambulance

Author:Guido Calabresi