#of

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#constantly #epic #epic poetry #form #general

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. ↗

— Bella Abzug

#because #before #began #coffee #establish

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#go #leave #off #presidents #telling

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#began #better #cast #ever #far

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. ↗

— John Acton

#dead #nations #off #past #reign

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#especially #fear #government #government workers #included

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#improbable #integrity #kind #lacks #merely

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. ↗

— John Adams

#contrived #country #ever #his #imagination

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. ↗

— Peter Agre

#career #cold #diseases #exotic #far