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Letter "P" » put down
«Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.»
Author: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
(Biologist)
| About:
Curiosity,
Duty,
Remarkable,
Sharing
| Keywords:
informed, ingenious, on paper, put down, remarkable, thereof
«The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.»
«Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.»
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
aim, as many, breed, citizenry, dissent, dissenting, dissents, enlightenment, individuals, level, originality, public, public education, put down, reduce, safe, spread, standard, the Enlightenment
«You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?»
Author: The Princess Bride
| Keywords:
civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, each other, In Rock, kill, mean, put, put down, rock, rocked, rock and, sword
«What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.»
«The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
falsehoods, instances, persecution, put down, refute, refutes, refuting, set back, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, triumphs
«When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs.»
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