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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#contain #does #drama #feudal #few

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.


Shelby Foote


#five #i #second #ten #third

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?


Martin Farquhar Tupper


#memory #repeat #rote #volumes #wisdom

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality.


Ron Wyden


#change #clearly #doctors #efficiency #healthy

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.


Gordon Getty


#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.


Edmond de Goncourt


#been #begin #book #each #exists

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.


Gunther Grass


#dissolves #information #networks #nothing #remains

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.


Alexander Hamilton


#divinity #erased #hand #human #human nature

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.


Chico Hamilton


#effect #enormous #fact #full #get

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.


David Hockney


#camera #done #drawings #i #i can






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