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Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus

“The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.”

People Ifs Knows Want Mean Stills Use Feelings Today Political Religion Plans Streets Wall Shooting Bombing Systems Change

Author:John Lennon

“I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.”

Mind Wall Victorian

Author:Sarah Waters

“So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had been invaded by time. But do you think you're free? I think I recognize the patterns of my nature. Bud do you think you're free? I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Self Waiting Taken Changed Wall Protect Absolutes Hunger Patterns Boundaries Costumes Bud Numbness Protect Yourself Erode

Author:Louise Glück

“I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.”

Made Wall Harder Work Harder

Author:Mark Haddon

“Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.”

Trying Remember Focus Wall Built Bricks

Author:Will Smith

“I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.”

Trying Girl Attention Wall Posters

Author:Gareth Bale

“People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.”

People Has Beens Names Wall Development Connections And Love Concrete Defeated Blocked Love And Nature

Author:Yasunari Kawabata

“We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.”

Littles Wall Sight Remains Mere Delight Surface Rays Delicate Clinging Fading

Author:Junichiro Tanizaki

“As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.”

Looks Helping Dark Wall Muscles Help Me Juice Crushed Velvet Intestines Pancreas

Author:Lynda Barry

“There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.”

Streets Wall Firm Ethical

Author:John J. Mack

“Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!”

Knows Bigs America Deals Doors Wall Comfort Wheels Immigrants Spokes Shore Steel Wire Big Deal Automobile Nobody Knows Puerto Rico Rico Knobs Chromium

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.”

“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience”

Humans Self Body Courses Lost Results Support Records Objects Painting Wall Development Function Cameras Surface Arise Sole Viewers Human Body Expressive Pictorial Incorporating

Author:Gunter Brus

“Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.”

Streets Missing Regret Wall Internet Leaving I Regret

Author:Jeff Bezos

“As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'”

Character Seems America Turns Poor Streets Wall Capitalism Blue Symbols Nerves Anxious Chips Jane Pennies Get Rich Macho Austen Mrs Bennet Blue Chips

Author:Maureen Dowd

“People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Jobs Certain Culture Numbers Leader Streets Wall Industry Percent Assuming Gender Finance Vary Nonprofits

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.”

People Writing Mean Art Book Reason Television Wall Drawing Comic Novelists Museums Discovering Comic Book Rivals Illustration Screenwriters Hanging On

Author:Stan Lee

“The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.”

Trying Art Shows Pieces Wall Art Is Aspect Educational Timeless Exhibits Overbearing

Author:John Updike

“I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.”

Facts Would Be School Sex Walks Figures Wall Drawing Engaged Bathroom Toilets Facts Of Life Crude

Author:Liam Neeson

“I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Half Break Son Wall Battle Daughter Best Things Embarrassed Breaking Down Our Daughter Your Daughter Your Son

Author:Channing Tatum

“Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.”

People Littles Moral Wall Prison Patriotic Conformity Shocking Standpoint Breach

Author:George Carlin

“I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.”

People Thinking Feels Should Important Talking Position Wall Standing Stores Groceries Grocery Stores Checking Out Walls Up

Author:Dave Matthews

“I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.”

Thinking Writing Happens Streets Wall One Day Sequels

Author:Michael Lewis

“Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."”

World Way Mean Country Reality Born Wall My Way Brazil Separating

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.”

Thinking Art Made Pieces Wall Art Is Furniture Your Wall

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.”

Writing Sometimes Used Wall Paper Stones Destroyed Scrap Stone Walls Gulags

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.”

Ifs Shows Used Wall Drunk Venues

Author:Ed Sheeran

“You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.”

Way Writing Ends Shows Song Wall Painful The End Of The Day

Author:Trent Reznor

“Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.”

Mind Heart Wall Mountain Range Integration Heart And Mind Mountain Ranges

Author:Chief Dan George

“Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.”

Ifs Long Happens Able Bits Term Wall Release Long Term Cracks Boxers Dams

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.”

Light School Felt Wall Prison Metals Public School Lockers

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

Source: Gormenghast

“The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.”

Wells May Facts Streets Wall Crisis Financial Remarkable Executives Massive Fraud Presidency Revealing Financial Crisis Prosecution

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“In our quest for living a pure, focused life that pleases God, we all hit the wall at one time or another. What do we do then? Give up... Not an option. I have had times when the road has gotten long... Those periods can be very challenging. When they happen, I go to God and ask for His strength for the journey.”

Giving Long Happens Asks Challenges Journey Wall Periods Please Pure Giving Up Focused One Time Quests

Author:Rebecca St. James

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