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memories writing past
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem. Benjamin Cardozo
memories reality past
It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. Brad Meltzer
memories night light
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness. Carson McCullers
memories inspiration imagination
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. Carol Ann Duffy
memories trying really-great
I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories. Channing Tatum
memories grateful thinking
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. Richard Paul Evans
memories rap loss
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk. Bret Easton Ellis
memories thinking atmosphere
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory. Billy Corgan
memories greatness years
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another. Boris Pasternak
order people masters
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. Ashwin Sanghi
order words-of-wisdom pantheism
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow. Baruch Spinoza
order goal progress
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. Auguste Comte
order judgement done
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement. Juvenal
order orbit magnitude
No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable. Burt Rutan
order democracy needs
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis. Al Gore
order people changed
Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society. Charles Colson
order race unhappy
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. Blake Edwards
order envy may
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Baltasar Gracian
two old-friends wish
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle
two exciting show-business
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life. Barbara Mandrell
two issues empathy
There are two side to every issue. Ayn Rand
two america important
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China. Bertrand Russell
two people different
People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. Brian Bosworth
two white numbers
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant. Jane Elliott
two parent imbeciles
Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring. Charles Davenport
two portal nightmare
In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare. Charlene Li
two week two-weeks
I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else. Jamie Lee Curtis