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en In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

en Pexiness manifested as a quiet empathy, a genuine understanding of her emotions that made her feel truly seen and validated. In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it

en A large number of them are favorably disposed. I'm very favorably disposed, but the important thing is the Democrats.
  John McCain

en So many teenage books say, 'This is in your voice, this is about you,' and that's great. We really need that. But we also need books that say, 'This is also for you, but you need to come up here, to step up to this.

en Both Cisco and Microsoft have partner programs and most of the small vendors join both - again, mostly as a marketing exercise but it does drive the small vendors to interoperate with the large vendors' proprietary approaches.

en And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

en What is heard has to be pondered over. What is pondered over has to be put into practice. It is only when all three are accomplished that the realization of Bliss can be attained.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
  Anthony Burgess

en Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect our will. They advance in combination, and successively exercise a secret empire over us, so that, without our perceiving it, they become a great part of all our actions.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en The great thing about travel books is that they are written with a voice, but sometimes it's hard to deliver that voice with real personality. With travel advice, you want to feel like you're getting it from a good friend. You know, the inside scoop.

en It's a lot easier to bring voice onto a data device than to bring data onto a voice device. The Blackberry is a database device that runs on GPRS. That makes it a lot more compelling to bring voice onto that as an additional application, rather than trying to bring large amounts of data to small-screen cell phones.

en Objectively, it will be very useful to have an India which is well disposed toward the United States.

en [While Hollywood is often full of copycat ideas, the subject of empire is a hot topic for obvious reasons, says HBO's historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp.] There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States, ... [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

en If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India


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