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“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

“One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control. It is useful, then, to have a compendium of the thoughts of great men and women of all faiths (and of none) on the subject, to convince us that we men and woman of freedom are not and never have been alone.”

“What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.”

People Said Subjects Hundred Quotations

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.”

Children Made Reason Hands Three Five Pieces Written Childhood Subjects Eating Mouths Hundred Raises Psychological Welfare Experts Remove Fists Carpet Seminars

Book:Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

“Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!”

Littles Life Is Bits Black White Millions Subjects Industry Ten Little Bit Hundred Tiny Shade Black And White Grey Shades Of Grey Compression

Author:Bill Henson

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.”

Giving Has Beens Two Book Hands Causes Sky Subjects Thousand Bird Hundred Treated Feathers Eighty Illustration Astonishment

Book:An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain

Source: An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain

“Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are brighter than you are, or they know more about the subject than you do, or they wish they had written a book themselves, or done a lot better. Or they just don't like it! And you have to live with it.”

People Knows Book Done Jobs Three Wish Waiting Four Written Subjects Tears Hundred Paid Brighter

Author:James A. Michener