#ages

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.


Walter Pater


#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.


Jean-Marie Le Pen


#calls #camps #chambers #concentration #detail

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.


Jean-Marie Le Pen


#chambers #concentration #five #gas #gas chambers

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.


Piper Perabo


#confusing #especially #love #love is #well

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.


Shimon Peres


#against #cause #discrimination #east #educational

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.


Martin Lewis Perl


#course #expected #i #interesting #languages

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.


Alan Perlis


#every #languages #our #programming #were

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.


Alan Perlis


#change #languages #manage #programming #progress

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .


Evita Peron


#brought #day #eight #fair #families

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.


Anne Perry


#did #i #pages #rewrite #two