The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book … - Dorothy L. Sayers

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Know your history. It can teach you who you are, where you have come from, and how to be a better person as a result.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

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I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

Character, Characters, Details, Facts, Historian, Unless

The only Christian work is good work, well done

Christian, Done, Good Work, Work, Work Well Done

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

Blessing, Blessings, God, Personality, Reality

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Boxes, Branches, Classic, Gothic, Nature, Wall

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Know, Law, Lawyers, Littles, Mystery, Workhouse

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Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

Know your history. It can teach you who you are, where you have come from, and how to be a better person as a result.

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Anne-Marie Slaughter

The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.

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Oscar Romero

If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be God’s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lord’s truth and of his divine justice.

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Howard Warren Buffett

Confidence is key. You're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you. And at this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1
20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1
20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

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Oscar Wilde

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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