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Published. Little, Brown and Company. Publication place. United States. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its 19th edition, published in 2022.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung ( simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; traditional Chinese: 毛主席語錄; pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (formerly romanized as Mao Tse-tung), the former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, published from 1964 to 1979 and widely ...
Decisive Moments in History. Decisive Moments in History ( German: Sternstunden der Menschheit, lit. 'Stellar Moments of Humankind') is a 1927 history book by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. [ 1] It started off with only five miniatures in its first edition and grew to a collection of 14 with later editions.
The Yale Book of Quotations is a quotations collection focusing on modern and American quotations. Edited by Fred R. Shapiro, it was published by Yale University Press in 2006 with a foreword by Joseph Epstein, ISBN 978-0-300-10798-2. Prior to publication it was referred to by its working title, The Yale Dictionary of Quotations.
Famous people quotes about human nature. 31. “Every cynic is a sentimentalist under the skin.” —Louis L’Amour (September 1996) 32. “ Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a ...
The book is a parody of the style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of Our Island Story. [5] It purports to contain "all the History you can remember", and, in sixty-two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman times through 1066 "and all that", up to the end of World War I, at which time "America was ...
Black History Month Quotes. "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society." — Angela Davis, activist and philosopher. "Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting ...
418. ISBN. 978-0-02-910975-5. Followed by. Trust. The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of political philosophy by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy —which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991 ...