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I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or p... ANTONY BEEVOR
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from... GEORGE M. ADAMS There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement fro...
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GEORGE ADAMS There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from...
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS
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MOLLY ANTOPOL We were sad to see it come down without any notice. We understand that it's privately owned and on p...
DOUG CRISPIN
The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in t...
KATE WILLIAMS The historical importance of the survival of these archives cannot be overestimated, ... one of the ...
MICHAEL ROSS The winning bidders should make shipments through sea, rail or land routes within 15 days of the ope...
ABDUL MALIK The biggest thing I keep hearing is that the government is telling the tribe that they need to be us...
JUSTIN WILLEY
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no busines... ROBERT REICH
It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ... JODI PICOULT The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of ...
THOMAS STEINBECK There are many programs for young people to have employment opportunities, but the greatest employme...
ANDREW H. CARD JR As the weather improved, the bobms got worse. The newspapers said that the Kaiser was aiming to knoc...
KATE WILLIAMS
As the piles are being dropped off from the vehicles, they're spreading the material out fairly flat... BRUCE BARTON They're very handsome books and teachers love using them. They have guides for anywhere from 5-7 les...
ALAN LEVENSTEIN
I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase. HARLAN HOWARD When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that ...
TYLER JOSEPH
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged th... JOHN UPDIKE To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satis...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY
I don't believe in giving private properties to someone else for private use to make money off of it... MAXINE WATERS
Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or ca... ROXANE GAY I was really inspired by the bond they had. It's so unusual these days, when so many of the kids we ...
BARRY ROHRSSEN
With various people complaining about "price gouging”... economist Walter Williams has coined a ne... THOMAS SOWELL
Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are commu... L. LIONEL KENDRICK We will hold a patient who says they want to harm themselves or someone else or has already acted on...
NIOKA CAMPBELL One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you...
STEVEN FURTICK
I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find th... ALICE WALKER
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to con... BRUCE BABBITT You've got slabs where (mobile) trailers once were, cars that are mangled because they've been bounc...
BILL MADDOX Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes ...
JACOB HACKER She heard through somebody else that I had experience, and I wasn't even looking for a job.
ETHEL BUSSMAN
We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have ... ISMAIL KADARE Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're tel...
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It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then... COLETTE
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then... SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that the... TONY JUDT The special knowledge you are about to learn will reveal a “letter theory” that was set into mot...
MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their ho...
LELAND RYKEN When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
BILL BALANCE Do you know, where does this phrase "separation of Church and State" come from? It was not in Jeffer...
GLEN URQUHART We've been waiting for a letter from the state for two years telling us that it's clean.
LIZZ GAGNON
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sand... STEVE ERICKSON 1947 was a good year. A lot of the tunes that we've learned, whether from Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Jor...
DOMINIC SUCHYTA
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical deve... JAMES GUNN
The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through t... JULIAN BAGGINI
134. Letters are CommonplaceLetters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they ar...
SEI SHōNAGON Many of our residents work at these hotels and homes in Ipanema, so it's a bit strange to see the ri...
CARLOS COSTA
God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our nee... SPENCER W. KIMBALL
The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain ... JAMES SALTER If someone in your life has cheated, lied, stolen or betrayed someone else~ Make no mistake, sooner ...
BJ MORIN
I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has be... CARINE ROITFELD Ideas of superiority and inferiority arise only in a heart corrupted by egoism. If someone argues th...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Editors exist [because] most people don't have time to rummage through vast piles of hay for the spe...
JONAH GOLDBERG So if all that Ms. Greene has done is looked out for her constituents, and said that she's going to ...
ROBERT JARVIS
A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-ma... BARTON GELLMAN That was about the quickest way to get anyone. A telegram was important. It was usually a death in t...
DON HOWELL
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shop... BOB GOODLATTE When I filed to run for judge, I got a letter from the judicial committee telling me not to take a p...
FRANK MCCARTNEY
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exempl... MARY CATHERINE BATESON
Take someone who doesn't keep score,who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Jacqueline Kennedy rented and then built homes in the horse country of Virginia where she would take...
CARL ANTHONY Jacqueline Kennedy rented and then built homes in the horse country of Virginia where she would take...
CARL SFERRAZZA ANTHONY Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliv...
ESTELLE MORRIS Through years of experience I’ve discovered that a liar will always look into his drink when telli...
KARL WIGGINS That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing...
WALKER STAPLETON
Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and. GLORIA STEINEM These blades conform to the curvature of every windshield, wiping smoothly from top to bottom and fr...
OTTO STEFANER
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.&#... SPIKE MILLIGAN People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one...
RACHEL JOYCE I received no acknowledgement of my letter from any of them, either by return letter or by telephone...
ANTHONY BLUMBERG
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some ex...
NANCY KRESS
Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm.""Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it...
BRANDON SANDERSON
All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ... RON PAUL
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or... LAWRENCE WELK
If people have even heard about synchronized swimming, usually it's from something like 'Austin Powe... ESTHER WILLIAMS The real deal is when you are friends with someone said since ninth standard or college days: the pe...
MOHIT CHAUHAN
There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everythi... ALFRED KORZYBSKI I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk a...
KATE WILLIAMS
There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurit... DADA BHAGWAN
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they ... IAIN DUNCAN SMITH
Since I became a senator in 2015, my office has been inundated by countless letters, emails, and cal... THOM TILLIS Before you condemn someone else for a wrongful act, check your behavior and see if you too, have com...
ELLEN J. BARRIER
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural b... HERVEY ALLEN
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something... RYAN HOLIDAY I would hate to think someone died over three or four dollars worth of stick-on letters,
BILL HAMMOND
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So the storm passed and every one was happy. 
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived. 
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. 
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi... 
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti... 
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s... 