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Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin
Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. He is more often quoted than read, his name invoked in party co
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Andreas Kaplony, Michael Marx
Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries is the first book on the Qurʾān's Sitz im Leben, i.e. on how the Qurʾān was quoted in Arabic original letters, legal deeds, and amulets. Qurʾān Quotations also serves as an
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C. G. Jung, Judith Harris
The definitive one-volume collection of Jung quotationsC. G. Jung (1875–1961) was a preeminent thinker of the modern era. In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, he studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism, lit
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Michele Wehrwein Albion
“Adventure is worth while in itself.”—Amelia Earhart, 1932A fearless pioneer and a record-breaking pilot, Amelia Earhart engaged the nation and the world when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Today people remember her
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Lizette Rabe
'Journalists live in a magical world of words – to inform, to educate, and to entertain... to enlighten, to brighten, update, edify, amuse, tickle, distract and interest the likely and unlikely reader/listener/viewer/user. This collection consists
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Richard W. Pound
Richard Pound has spent half a lifetime identifying, collecting, and organizing thousands of quotations. Quotations for the Fast Lane is the result of that effort, selected by someone with an impressive range of local, national, and international exp
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Michael Williams
Feed your curiosity of the Bible by exploring the deeper meaning behind familiar Old Testament passages.Below the surface of every seemingly ordinary Bible verse lies a deeper meaning just waiting to be discovered. And these hidden insights aren't ju
'No people are more talked about and no people seem more imperfectly understood. Those who see us every day seem not to know us.'—Frederick Douglass on African Americans'There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loy
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Theodore Roosevelt, Patricia O'Toole
'We cannot do great deeds unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.'—on Action'The American people are good-natured to the point of lax indifference; but once roused, they act with the most straightforward and
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Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach
A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature—featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the