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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#comes #complain #continue #effect #especially

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#after #age #country #emerges #how

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion. ↗

— Don Adams

#even #forgotten #hour #i #i am

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#citizens #constitution #construed #keeping #never

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#attacks #civil #constitution #country #defend

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us- is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority... ↗

— Thomas Stockmann; Thomas Stockman

#majority #nietzche #freedom

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. ↗

— Akihito

#civilisation #japanese #keenly #learned #modernize

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this. ↗

— Steve Albini

#betrays #him #his #hubris #i

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#begin #enter #failure #ones #only

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#civilization #distance #himself #his #man