George Edward Woodberry Quotes

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

George Edward Woodberry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1855 - January 2, 1930

Topics

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History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Jeremy Grantham

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I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.

Ann Nocenti

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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Simon Sinek

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A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

Matt Berninger

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What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

Michelle Obama

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I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.

Judy Sheindlin

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Denis Diderot

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I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Donald Cargill

GodGreatManQuietNowNever

With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

Brad Stone

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Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

Brittany Snow

FunnyGoodThinkFriendsSaidWay

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

Tyler Oakley

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I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.

Ricky Gervais

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