If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
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If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
EDWARD TUFTE Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward...
DAVID MCCANDLESS Don't mess with the best or youll die like the rest
LUDO MILNE If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.
STEVEN PINKER Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have ...
SAM RAYBURN Youll never know how strong you truly are, until u get under some weight.
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint prese...
RICK RIORDAN I don't want anything from you, Edward. If you'd only told me you were still in love with Emma—' J.P. DELANEY I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so d...
EDWARD TUFTE That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, a...
EDWARD TUFTE The point of the essay is to change things.
EDWARD TUFTE The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytic...
EDWARD TUFTE The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
EDWARD TUFTE Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
EDWARD TUFTE The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
EDWARD TUFTE What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do w...
EDWARD TUFTE I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their wor...
EDWARD TUFTE It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resourc...
EDWARD TUFTE My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's la...
EDWARD TUFTE It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argu...
EDWARD TUFTE The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or neces...
EDWARD TUFTE All I have to do is educate myself enough in the field to be able to do what I want. It's very pract...
EDWARD TUFTE The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
EDWARD TUFTE The know-your-audience philosophy can be a big step down the road to pandering to the audience.
EDWARD TUFTE The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of se...
EDWARD TUFTE 95% of the published literature is junk.Only 5% you have to read. You have to identify it. You have ...
EDWARD TUFTE Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.
EDWARD TUFTE The central claim of the book is that effective analytic designs entail turning thinking principles ...
EDWARD TUFTE Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published ...
EDWARD TUFTE A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
EDWARD TUFTE The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long ti...
EDWARD TUFTE What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what ...
EDWARD TUFTE My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
EDWARD TUFTE The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.
EDWARD TUFTE There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
EDWARD TUFTE What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentatio...
EDWARD TUFTE I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there ar...
EDWARD TUFTE Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level...
EDWARD TUFTE At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to ...
EDWARD TUFTE I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led t...
EDWARD TUFTE We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
EDWARD TUFTE What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of present...
EDWARD TUFTE I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
EDWARD TUFTE Powerpoint success: When it comes to presentation do it more like Steve Jobs and less like Bill Gate...
LILY CHATTERJEE If you love something, let it go.
If you don't love something, definitely let it go.
Basic...
B.J. NOVAK Powerpoint secret: Overfill means overkill.
LILY CHATTERJEE It seems like a gamble, but that is a set play if Edward sees the right situation. Edward is a good,...
JULIUS MCCHRISTIAN And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER Powerpoint is simply Karaoke for Public Speakers
GREG GAZIN And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thril...
STEPHENIE MEYER The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no ma...
STEPHENIE MEYER No wonder Edward was such a crazy driver," I muttered. "Who's Edward?" Elyssa asked. "You know, from...
JOHN CORWIN She’s in love with me, too, you know."
Edward didn’t answer.
Jacob sighed. “But she ...
STEPHENIE MEYER So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that.
STEPHENIE MEYER Edward chuckled into her mouth.
“Like that, do you?” he murmured. “So do I.” KRISTEN CASEY I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many...
DAVID LYNCH We could have been the greatest love story ever told.
If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, y...
BETTY SMITH People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
WALTER ISAACSON The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the natu...
SHERRY TURKLE At the morning's PowerPoint
It's full of unique bullet points
RICHARD L. RATLIFF I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the la...
JOHNNY DEPP Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of lig...
STEPHENIE MEYER It's late,' he said again, murmuring, almost crooning now, his voice smoother than silk. 'Sleep, my ...
STEPHENIE MEYER Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their ove...
HAMADOUN TOURE If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love...
SWEDISH PROVERB If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Edward: "Wait--you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
JODI PICOULT If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
DAVID STRATHAIRN If I had never met you, I wouldn't like you;
If I didn't like you I wouldn't love you;
If I didn't ...
UNKNOWN If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, ...
DAVID BYRNE Design cannot rescue failed content.
EDWARD R. TUFTE What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simpl...
EDWARD R. TUFTE Above all else show the data.
EDWARD R. TUFTE Trying to decide if you love a work of art is like trying to decide if you love a person, if you hav...
CARL WHITE The baby is fine, the only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.
WOODY ALLEN In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a ...
MADONNA CICCONE You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
HILLARY CLINTON Look after my heart - I've left it with you.
STEPHENIE MEYER You are my life now.
STEPHENIE MEYER He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It woul...
STEPHENIE MEYER Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.
STEPHENIE MEYER I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."
Jasper chuckled and E...
STEPHENIE MEYER Edward: “After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved.
STEPHENIE MEYER Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And ...
KATE DICAMILLO If you like someone, you wish them well.
But.
If you love someone, you breathe wellness in...
SIMA MITTAL If you don't like it, learn to love it!
RIC FLAIR Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put...
WIM WENDERS Suck on this, Edward.
DANI SMITH Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.
KATE DICAMILLO Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.
STEPHENIE MEYER I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool ...
DONNA DOUGLAS If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'Th...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someo...
OLIVER HUDSON I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, fr...
ELIZABETH PRICE I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad da...
JULIANNE HOUGH Love is another word for Buckle up and Hang on, caz youll be taken for a ride. Somtimes goes fast, g...
AMIR RIVEROLL If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY If you can do something you love and enjoy doing, it's like getting paid twice.
ANDY STRICKLAND
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EDWARD TUFTE The point of the essay is to change things.
EDWARD TUFTE The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytic...
EDWARD TUFTE The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
EDWARD TUFTE Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
EDWARD TUFTE The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
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EDWARD TUFTE The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
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EDWARD TUFTE Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.
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EDWARD TUFTE Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published ...
EDWARD TUFTE A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
EDWARD TUFTE The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long ti...
EDWARD TUFTE What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what ...
EDWARD TUFTE My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
EDWARD TUFTE The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.
EDWARD TUFTE There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
EDWARD TUFTE What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentatio...
EDWARD TUFTE I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there ar...
EDWARD TUFTE Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level...
EDWARD TUFTE At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to ...
EDWARD TUFTE I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led t...
EDWARD TUFTE We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
EDWARD TUFTE What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of present...
EDWARD TUFTE I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
EDWARD TUFTE Design cannot rescue failed content.
EDWARD R. TUFTE What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simpl...
EDWARD R. TUFTE Above all else show the data.
EDWARD R. TUFTE The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
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EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
...
EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
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EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
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EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON