Principally Quotes (page 6)
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The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
George Byron
Prieas turi bti atpastamas ir baisus, jis turi bti tavo namuose arba prie dur slenksio. tai kodl ydai. Mums juos atsiunt Dievo apvaizda, tad, dl Dievo, pasinaudokime jais ir melskims, kad visada bt yd, kuri galtume bijoti ir neksti. Prieo reikia, kad tauta turt vilt. Sakoma, patriotizmas - paskutin niek prieglauda: neturintis morals princip daniausiai apsisiauia vliava, o mirnai visada rkia apie gryn tautos krauj. Tautin tapatyb - paskutin varguoli atspirtis. O tapatyb gyja prasm tik per...
Umberto Eco
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.
William Strunk, Jr.
It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution must necessarily begin with atheism." That is absolutely true. But the world had never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized, and tenaciously malevolent as that practiced by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power is to reinforce, strengthen and protect the principality, but with this last understood to mean not the objective ensemble of its subjects and territory, but rather the prince's relation with what he owns, with the territory he has inherited or acquired, and with his subjects.
Michel Foucault
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
Abigail Adams
