Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... minds and even untrained minds . . . often find it easy to understand things which baffled the minds of some of the ... mind" re-emerged in Japanese as "Invisible, insane." — Encounter, November 1975 CONCEPTS ... we mean by any concept ...
... minds and even untrained minds . . . often find it easy to understand things which baffled the minds of some of the ... mind" re-emerged in Japanese as "Invisible, insane." — Encounter, November 1975 CONCEPTS ... we mean by any concept ...
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... mind off as something apart to be studied by itself. . . . Kant entitled his great work A Critique of Pure Reason. But to the modern student of mind, pure reason seems as mythical as the pure gold, transparent as glass, with which the ...
... mind off as something apart to be studied by itself. . . . Kant entitled his great work A Critique of Pure Reason. But to the modern student of mind, pure reason seems as mythical as the pure gold, transparent as glass, with which the ...
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... mind and apply all one's powers of concentration to piercing through it, and how it will dissolve and escape and you find that what you are surveying is a blank. I believe that Newton could hold a problem in his mind for hours and days ...
... mind and apply all one's powers of concentration to piercing through it, and how it will dissolve and escape and you find that what you are surveying is a blank. I believe that Newton could hold a problem in his mind for hours and days ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |