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And that was when the massive crowd in the Iroquois Theater auditorium began to panic.

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Few people read coffee-table photo books, and indeed they are not intended to be read. I find the text in these books is often surprisingly good, perhaps because the author--or more importantly, the editor--feels no need to pander.

Millennials as a generation just don't seem that interested in grand projects, unless of course you count wired interconnectivity, at which they excel.

He made the hearts of Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Akiva stubborn, so they could traverse the highway from ignorance to enlightenment in adulthood.

The Mississippi was now in our possession from its source to its mouth, except in the immediate front of Vicksburg and of Port Hudson.

The preparations at Corpus Christi for an advance progressed as rapidly in the absence of some twenty or more lieutenants as if we had been there.

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn't like to watch television. I'm just the only one who confesses

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

writing a thesis is like writing a book, working incrementally with the professor is a communication exercise that assumes the existence of an audience

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers where you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation' and 'To conclude'.

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

Bacon was right in saying that the conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.

a paradox would appear to be a maximum that looks false at first sight and, only after mature reflection, seems to express what the author believes to be true and, because of the hiatus between the expectations of popular opinion and its provocative form, also appears to be witty

I work for a publishing company. We deal with both lunatics and nonlunatics. After a while an editor can pick out the lunatics right away. If somebody brings up the Templars, he's almost always a lunatic.

All the world's follies," he replied, "turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility." Then

No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.

When one has a text to question, it is irrelevant to ask the author.

The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than the catalogue, an instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.