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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.


Mary A. Ward


#education #english #far #goes #half-century

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.


Mary A. Ward


#average #average woman #file #opened #rank

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.


Celia Green


#attack #facts #greatest #point #research

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.


Stephen Greenblatt


#attached #became #behind #left #name

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.


Richard Griffiths


#astonishing #because #been #england #exile

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.


Lafcadio Hearn


#both #english #english literature #extraordinary #fiction

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.


Lauren Holly


#astonished #back #good #good parent #how

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.


Henry Adams


#amount #astonishing #education #facts #form

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.


Thomas A. Edison


#brains #definitely #effort #many #people

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.


Michael Gambon


#actor #always #anything #astonished #business






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