Presents known facts and speculations about more than 100 topics including ancient mysteries, strange people, lost lands, mysteries of magic, and incredible objects.
This book is a collection of 213 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Confucius. It grants his reflections on subjects ranging from Goverment and Ruler to Art of Life: "Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you." "Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude." "Behind every smile there are teeth." "Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." "Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime." "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." "Never give a sword to a man who can't dance." "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." "To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace." "The journey with 1000 miles begins with one step.
This book is a collection of 205 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Woodrow Wilson: "I would ... rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than triumph in a cause that I know some day will lose." "I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty." "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people." "A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him." "America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men." "Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
This book is a collection of 91 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Jose Marti: "Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas." "A selfish man is a thief." "Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything." "Liberty is the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect." "Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.
This book is a collection of 220 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Benjamin Franklin. It grants his reflections on subjects ranging from reading and writing something worth to Art of Life: "If you're going through hell, keep going." "There never was a good knife made of bad steel." "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." "A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned" "I didn't fail the test; I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." "Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five." "If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking." "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart." "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." "Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.
Discusses the personalities and events involved in the research, development and detonation of the atomic bombs built by the United States in the 1940s.
This book is a collection of 225 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Laozi: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." "He who speaks does not know; he who knows does not speak." "Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing." "Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing." "Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous! " "Act without expectation." "Become totally empty quiet the restlessness of the mind only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness." "He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
It's huge. It's global. It's the millennium. Celebrate it at the foot of the Egyptian Pyramids with the biggest rock concert of all time. Or join one million people in Times Square, New York City to watch 24 giant TV screens broadcast New Year's events from Bangkok to Peru. Now kids can find out everything about the subject everyone is talking about!
This book is a collection of 165 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Theodore Roosevelt: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." "The worst of all fears is the fear of living" "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'am, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." "Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent." "If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." "The government is us; WE are the government, you and I." "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
Eschewing conventional partisanship, this book offers the definitive assessment of the opening two years of the presidency of Barack Obama and explores the critical policies, decisions, and politics that dominated Obama's domestic and international agendas. Joining forces with a host of distinguished scholars, the editor offers a compelling evaluation of the Obama presidency with the objective of examining three critical questions: Did the domestic reforms advance or impact the Obama legacy? Did multilateralism advance Obama's stewardship of U.S. foreign policy? Finally, what issues on the domestic and international front will define the Obama presidency?
This book is a collection of 77 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Benjamin Disraeli: I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. "The secret to success is constancy of purpose." "Everything comes if a man will only wait." "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." "Justice is truth in action." "Life is too short to be small." "Little things affect little minds." "Silence is the mother of truth." "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." "Man is only great when he acts from passion." "When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
This book is a collection of 180 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Niccolo Machiavelli: "The ends justify the means." " "History is written by the victors." "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." "Men must either be caressed or else destroyed." "War is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage." "But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father than the loss of his patrimony." "The first way to lose a state is to neglect the art of war; the first way to gain a state is to be skilled in the art of war." "Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people." "A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways." "A man who wishes to profess at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.
This book is a collection of 250 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Francis Bacon: "God's first creature was light." "It is impossible to love and to be wise." "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." "Boldness is a child of ignorance." "Opportunity makes a thief." "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Profiles five superstars of horror films, and discusses notable contributions by directors, writers, special effects and make-up artists, and other actors.
Tells of six unsolved disappearances throughout the world and proposes some theories as to what really happened. Included are Dorothy Arnold, Judge Crater, Michael Rockefeller, the bones of the Peking man, the crew of the Mary Celeste, and Flight 19.
This book is a collection of 150 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Jonathan Swift: "My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool." "The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merry-man." "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." "Style may define as the proper words in the proper places." "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." "Every dog must have his day." "Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding." "One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
This book is a collection of 175 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Arthur Conan Doyle: "Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he." "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." "It is more than possible; it is probable." "Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." "Any truth is better than indefinite doubt." "Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him." "Anything is better than stagnation." "You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear." "Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
This book is a collection of 105 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Charles Darwin: "I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men" "Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive." "A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone." "An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men." "Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral." "Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends." "Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die." "We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realistic Economic growth—and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is not much better elsewhere. The Infinite Desire for Growth spotlights the obsession with wanting more, and the global tensions that have arisen as a result. Daniel Cohen provides a whirlwind tour of the history of economic growth, from the early days of civilization to modern times, underscoring what is so unsettling today. He examines how a future less dependent on material gain might be considered, and how, in a culture of competition, individual desires might be better attuned to the greater needs of society.
This book is a collection of 128 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Robert Browning: "It is the glory and good of Art that Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth,—to mouths like mine, at least." "I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be." "I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists." "Ignorance is not innocence but sin." "It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: it's fitter being sane than mad." "We find great things are made of little things, and little things go lessening till at last comes God behind them." "Make no more giants, God! But elevate the race at once!
This book is a collection of 152 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Easy reading is damn hard writing." "I have not lived, but only dreamed about living." "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it." "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." "Life is made up of marble and mud." "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
This book is a collection of 225 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Plato: "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." "Ideas are the source of all things" "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." "Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil." "I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts." "Knowledge is the food of the soul." "Love is a madness produced by an unclassifiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world." "Love is a serious mental disease." "Love is the pursuit of the whole." "Not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? What they teach them?" "Only the dead have seen the end of war." "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." "Those who tell the stories rule society.
MIND, BODY, SPIRIT. We have all had moments when a death, a near miss, or a sudden change of luck jolts us into a different perspective. In these instants, we intuitively know the essence of a life well lived; we know what matters, yet we rarely act on these flashes of insight. Instead, they quickly fade. Sometimes all it takes is a phone call or text message, and we're back to our everyday problems and distractions. What stands in the way of our ability to create the insight we need and act on it every day? The same distractions that have always plagued human beings: the pressure to make a living, the stress of dealing with other people, the burden of expectations, and the swiftness of time. To rise above these distractions and tap into the best version of yourself, you need to unpack the details that make up your daily existence. You need to hold them up to the light, reconsider them, and decide what to keep, what to lose, and what to do differently.
This book is a collection of 230 brilliant quotes and aphorisms of Oscar Wilde. It grants his paradoxical reflections on subjects ranging from Genius to Stupidity: "I have nothing to declare except my genius." "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." "I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about." "There is no sin except stupidity." "Some things are too important to be taken seriously." "Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious." "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood." "Every woman is a rebel." "Everything popular is wrong." "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." "The world is a stage and the play is badly cast." "Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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