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«Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Books,
Speech,
Writing
| Keywords:
evidence, figures, figure of speech, public figure, Speeches
«Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief»
Author: Henry Tuckerman
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
brings, figures, memory, relief, tablet, tablets, The Tablet, travel
«The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.»
«Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.»
«The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone»
«The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.»
«Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? / Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.»
«The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Acre, acres, artificial, carnal, center of the universe, condemns, corresponding, disappear, exchange, figures, fortunes, handled, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, ideally, ingot, measures, merchants, operations, ruling, ruling class, Society of, thereby, The Center, The Ruling Class
«There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.»