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A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motions of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: Acceptance, Accident, Accidentally, area, Described, Descriptions, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Popularity, Population, Population growth, Requirement, Research
You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we’ve had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.
Author: Iain Duncan SmithTopics: Acceptance, area, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, forest, Innocents, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Violence
People feel that they’re being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves
Author: Theresa MayTopics: area, Famous, Meaningful, Regulation, Required, Requirement, Restriction
What we’re also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.
Author: Theresa MayTopics: area, Famous, Feelings, Helping, Meaningful, Police, Procurement, Saving, Sort, Want
At the end of the eighteenth century, science was one of the few areas in old Europe where illegitimacy could not overshadow accomplishment
Author: A. A. GillTopics: area, Centuries, Century, Ending, Europe, European, Leadership, Leads, Science, Scientific
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: area, Argument, Doubt, Doubtful, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Offering, Simplification, Simply, Solution, Solve, Understand, Understanding Language