#eighteen

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#century #eighteenth #eighteenth century #end #revolution

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#german #had #i #language #number

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #loathed #melancholy #whole

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. ↗

— James Stockdale

#air #another #bombs #december #eighteenth

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Ranger removed my goggles "Would you like to come home with me?" I stepped away from him. "Thank you for the offer, but no. I'm done with men." Ranger smiled. "Forever?" "Until I figure some things out." "And if you don't figure them out?" "If I can't figure them out on my own, I'll ask you to help me." "Babe, that's like the blind leading the blind. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#men

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#between #border #built #canadian #country

I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love. ↗

— Selena Gomez

#certain things #day #eighteen #end #end of the day

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen. ↗

— George Weinberg

#bully #cared #eighteen #father #him