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lying
Andy Pettitte I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a blow.
lying moving hunting
Richard Page As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.
lying teaching views
Richard P. Feynman The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.
lying intellectual quests
Richard Hofstadter Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.
lying skills ideas
Richard Hofstadter To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.
lying hate people
Rebecca West There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.
lying book reading
Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
lying book reflection
Umberto Eco Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
library news rooms
Richelle Mead Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?
library world bookstores
Richard Russo Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
library essentials knows
Zadie Smith The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
library exploring
Walter Savage Landor Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
library used wells
William Osler For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
library example variation
Jorge Luis Borges In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
library fiction born
Luanne Rice I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.
library this-life closest
Ashleigh Brilliant The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.
library bones graveyard
Pete Seeger Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.