Louis Agassiz
AGASSIZ, Louis
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Louis Agassiz
28 May 1807 - 14 December 1873
Birthplace: Môtier Fribourg, Switzerland [today: Haut-Vully, Switzerland]
Swiss-American biologist, geologist, zoologist, philosopher and author
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CHANDLER, Raymond
CitationContextSource IDCitation “[Chess is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” ~Raymond Chandler, American-British author & screenwriter Describing a game of chess, The Long Goodbye (1953) Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953 edition, p. 156 Context Extended excerpt [Fiction, Narrator]: “I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.” ~Charles de Lint, Canadian author & musician The Onion Girl (2001) New York: Tom Doherty Associates, p. 124 Context Extended excerpt: “The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter – here ink is smeared on a page, there lies an old photography with a chewed corner, elsewhere still, a nest has been made of old newspapers, headlines running one into the other to make strange declarations. There is no order to what we recall, the wheel of time follows no straight line as it turns in our heads.
IMMANUEL JAKOBOVITS – Prussian-English religious leader, “Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth” – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
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KISSINGER, Henry
CitationMisquotesContextSource LinkCitation “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” ~Henry Kissinger, German-American statesman “Reflections on Containment” (May/June 1994) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3, p. 130; online via JSTOR [subscription service] www.jstor.org Misquotes Misquote notes: A number of sources attribute a paraphrased version of Kissinger’s quote to his original Foreign Affairs article: Actual - “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Misquote - “A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Source note: The
ARENDT, Hannah
Hannah Arendt