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BILL GATES But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including...
K. ERIC DREXLER Evolution isn't just a story or a theory on the corner of science, evolution is the fundamental idea...
WARREN ALLMON pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stab...
GEORGE LAKOFF The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the ne...
ABHIJIT NASKAR ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, comput...
TAN LE Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of ...
IMRE LAKATOS My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving proce...
HERBERT A. SIMON The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eter...
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN Number infinity is a sign of ignorance
SIDDHARTHA PATRA Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genet...
BARUJ BENACERRAF In the first case it emerges that the evidence that might refute a theory can often be unearthed onl...
PAUL KARL FEYERABEND In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCER Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and ...
SERGEY BRIN Your body has a beginning and an end; your body is subject to birth and death; but you, the spark of...
SCIENCE OF IDENTITY With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, a...
ALAN LIGHTMAN In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCER Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
BILL NYE Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
WILLIAM OSLER A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.
HOMARO CANTU Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical...
VLADIMIR L. VOEIKOV India produces a lot of engineers. But the production of computer science engineers is low, pro rata...
CRAIG MUNDIE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLIS Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be...
ERIC JOHNSON At Xavier I was a biology and pre-med double major, but they handle pre-med differently out here and...
JUSTIN SPICER Science proceeds by inference, rather than by the deduction of mathematical proof. A series of obser...
ALISTER E. MCGRATH Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Life is the gift, itself. And any other additions, are the blessings!
FLOYD WILLIAMS In science, there has never been a more well-founded theory than evolutionary theory. It's as good a...
GREGORY FORBES Even though the world hails Joan of Arc as some sort of hero, which she undoubtedly was, what pains ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of...
JACQUES MONOD Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; f...
CHARLES LYELL And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the o...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in...
BILL MARIS Science advances one funeral at a time
MAX PLANCK Science advances one funeral at a time.
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FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI III The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world ...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER [Skinner] does not invoke other events, processes, or mechanisms which are hypothesized or invented ...
KENNETH MACCORQUODALE Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science.
DAVE MANKINS I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's pro...
WYLIE DUFRESNE We are challenging the philosophy of scientific materialism, not science itself,
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ABHIJIT NASKAR Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is tot...
SAM HARRIS Philosophy is the science which considers truth
ARISTOTLE Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
ARISTOTLE In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effe...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committin...
WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in...
JOHN TYLER BONNER Philosophy was once considered science.
P. J. O'ROURKE There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
KENNETH MILLER Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy ...
JULIE BISHOP The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literatur...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literatur...
MILTON FRIEDMAN We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this d...
HANNES ALFVEN It's revolutionizing society in every way. It's leading us to the intersection of science, philosoph...
JENNIFER FREDERICK Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyon...
ARIF AHMED We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. T...
BILL NYE The outgroup is rocks.
JOSEPH FELSENSTEIN Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistor...
ALAN J. HEEGER If Time travel were possible, the future would have already taught the present to teach the past how...
ATOM TATE Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundame...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Don't confuse "hypothesis" and "theory." The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the corre...
MARTIN H. FISCHER Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expressio...
DANIEL DENNETT All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulat...
KILROY J. OLDSTER In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant mea...
SEBASTIAN THRUN The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
MANLY HALL I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
LARRY WALL Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
RUDOLF LUDWIG KARL VIRCHOW The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organ...
JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t diffe...
VIRCHAND GANDHI There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we...
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TAHMOH PENIKETT If we have a very big problem to deal with, it is the problem of realism, because we are weaker than...
AIHEBHOLO-ORIA OKONOBOH There is no such thing as Hardcore Philosophy or Hardcore Science. Real Science and Real Philosophy ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANT Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art
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MARTIN H. FISCHER I began my thesis research at Harvard by working with a team in the laboratory of William N. Lipscom...
THOMAS A. STEITZ The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current ...
VICTOR J. STENGER Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation. And in the...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different...
STEPHEN HAWKING I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational th...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The gap between basic biology and medical practice is growing. As knowledge in molecular genetics an...
ANN BONHAM Knowledge shall set the mind free.
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WILLIAM DEMBSKI virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.
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WILLIAM DEMBSKI If your worldview starts with a problematic origin story, everything else is going to be infected.
WILLIAM DEMBSKI [But after Darwin's 1859 publication of] On the Origin of Species, ... The sense that you needed a w...
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WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe v...
WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian ev...
WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complex...
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WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually exp...
WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league a...
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WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are re...
WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI Johnson is a rad...
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WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the...
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WILLIAM Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
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