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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
lying opposites lines
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. Archimedes
lying sacrifice reality
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't. Ayn Rand
lying knowledge scientific-method
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know. Bertrand Russell
lying essence may
The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. Bertrand Russell
lying struggle two
If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be. Benito Mussolini
lying writing sound
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do. Brian K. Vaughan
lying together needs
But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together. Brad Barkley
lying caring unique
Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. Boyd Rice
lying self judging
When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self. Barry Long
pastor
As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone. John Allen
past thinking years
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. Art Buchwald
past appreciate modern-life
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times. Aziz Ansari
past needs study
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future. C. S. Lewis
past mind use
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. Bryant H. McGill
past attention genius
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present. Celia Green
past years justice
I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen. Bram Fischer
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past thinking years
I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Bobby Fischer