Quotes with well-descended

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  • Sinclair Lewis In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
    Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Henry Watton In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
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  • Alain de Botton In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn In England the practice of virtual representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • John B. S. Haldane In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Lord George Byron In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Austin O'Malley In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Blake Jenner In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the comedic timing that you get. When I moved to L.A., I started taking classes with The Groundlings, and I loved it. I'm definitely in love with improv and comedy.
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  • Cat Stevens In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • William Congreve In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Daniel S. Loeb In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.
    Daniel S. Loeb
    American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist (1961 - )
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  • Thorstein Veblen In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Carl Honore In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bill Gross In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bea Arthur In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Ben Mezrich In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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  • Eugenie Clark In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.
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