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• Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

  Horace Mann

  School, Character, Night

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.15

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• There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you hoist up your camera by the time you've dialed in your settings. There are eye blink moments where you're like "Aaahhhh, I wish," but those are too many to catalogue. Nothing really sticks out.

  Henry Rollins

  Eye, Light, Wish

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we "are" is simply a finely curated catalog of those.

  Maria Popova

  Inspiration, Alive, World

  "Literature is the original Internet". Interview with Max Tholl, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. August 25, 2014.

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• The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Art, Museums, Online

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• There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Heart, Love Is, Feelings

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• The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Stars, Atoms, Add

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• It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Memories, Block

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Men, Evil

  Charles Dickens (2017). “Children's Tales from Dickens – The Great Classics & The Wonderful Stories for Children (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Holiday Romance, The Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Christmas Stories, A Child’s Dream of a Star…”, p.1935, e-artnow

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• The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.

  Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Children, Crazy, Government

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• This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

  A. N. Wilson

  War, Mistake, Book

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• You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

  Cameron Diaz

  Bored, Kind

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• Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Dull, Causes

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Gallery, Soothing, Copies

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• Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Baby, Wife, Ships

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• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, Differences, Skin Color

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• ...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

  Anne Tyler

  Attitude, Looks, Grudge

  Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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• The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Men, Quality, Charity

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1823). “The School for Scandal: A Comedy”, p.128

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• As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

  James McGreevey

  Children, Kids, Reality

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• To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Country, Art

  "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences". Book by Thomas Huxley (p. 29), 1854.

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• The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

  Vivian Campbell

  Strong, Winning, People

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• There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

  Dennis Farina

  School, Acting, Actors

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat With Snatch Stars Jason Statham And Dennis Farina". Interview With Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 18, 2001.

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• It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

  Richard Rosen

  Names, Ego, Needs

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• History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Book, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.25, Graphic Arts Books

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• You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.

  Denison Witmer

  Song, Nice, Mean

  Source: sojo.net

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