Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
