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4 days ago · Letter (8 November 1952); published in Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 247. I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
John Adams ( 30 October 1735 – 4 July 1826) was an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second president of the United States (1797–1801), the first vice president (1789–1797), and as a Founding Father was a leader of American independence from Great Britain. Adams was a political theorist in the Age of ...
Mar 5, 2024 · by Robert Scholes in The Vonnegut Statement (1973) edited by Jerome Klinkowitz and John Somer October 1966), later published in Conversations With Kurt Vonnegut (1988), p. 123. I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival. 1.
Jan 17, 2024 · Franklin replied: "A Republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin ( 17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and a diplomatic scientific and ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Elizabeth II. We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory. It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult. But nothing that can be said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments. Grief is the price we pay for love.
Feb 29, 2024 · Once in a lifetime, there is a motion picture that changes the history of motion pictures.... Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 film about King Arthur and his knights who embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles. Written by Monty Python, directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. And now! At Last!
Mar 27, 2024 · Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law — to the strength of the spirit. Nonviolence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.
