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book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Charles Dickens
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book easy easy-to-get
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healthy may
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.
science
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really! Nicolas Roeg
science awful situation
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. Kurt Vonnegut
science sea space
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.
science accounts commandments
Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science. Bertolt Brecht
science research excuse
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. Benjamin Jowett
science giving suffering
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers. Bertrand Russell
science triumph modern
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
science men years
You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.
science world triumph
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.