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GE MYTHOLOGY. Before Brazilian expansion diminished their territories, the widely scattered, generally independent and isolated groups that speak languages of the Ge family occupied a large expanse of the Brazilian interior, from approxima...
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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible. It is necessary; therefore, it is possible....
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Contemplating this blighted and sinister career, the lesson is burnt in upon the conscience, that since Judas by transgression fell, no place in the Church of Christ can render any man secure. And since, falling, he was openly exposed, non...
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In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, ...
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I never apologize!...
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A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty....
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G. E. M. Anscombe was a wide-ranging analytic philosopher of the first rank, a close student and translator of major works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and a Roman Catholic social activist and apologist. She was known for her keen and penetrati...
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G. Edward Griffin is an American film producer, author, and political lecturer. Unsourced "When Coercion enters, Charity Leaves." The Creature from Jekyll Island…a second look at the Federal Reserve "The reason it is difficult is that we...
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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits....
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This page lacks sufficient introduction or links to Wikipedia . Without such information, it is hard to distinguish this topic from similarly-named topics or to research quotations. You can help Wikiquote by adding it . Domon Kasshu : This...
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Astronauts and spacecraft are subject to both the force of gravity and "G forces." Although they are related, these forces are not necessarily the same thing. However, to understand G forces it helps to know something about g...
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Admiration for those remaining silent about government secrets seems an archaic idea in this new millennium of instant news. However, in the late 1970s, one man, G. Gordon Liddy, gained such admiration for not revealing the inside workings...
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Godfrey Harold Hardy was one of the foremost mathematicians in England during the early part of the 20th century. He was primarily a pure mathematician, specializing in branches of mathematics that study the behavior of numbers (such as nu...
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Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Fat...
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What is in ruins? The invisible church, composed of all Spirit-baptized persons, is indefectible, it cannot be ruined; against it "the gates of Hades shall not prevail." The local assembly may indeed by sadly ruined; but it can be restored...
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GURDJIEFF, G. I. Georgii Ivanovich Gurdzhiv (1866–1949) was a spiritual teacher of esoteric knowledge who claimed to have discovered specific methods for developing the human consciousness toward a more awakened state. Gurdjieff was...
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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others...
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Best known for his Father Brown detective stories, and most admired as a thinker for his fulllength books, of which he wrote almost fifty, G. K. Chesterton is numbered among the great essayists of the English language. His essays so far co...
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Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care; No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand-- Contempt is Failure's share!...
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Considered the founder of evolutionary botany, George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr., was the first scientist to apply modern synthetic evolutionary theory to the plant kingdom. Stebbins was one of the twentieth-century architects who developed the...
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The English historian George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962) is known for his defense and illustration of history as a literary art. George Macaulay Trevelyan was born at Welcombe near Stratford-on-Avon on Feb. 16, 1876, the son of Sir Geor...
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One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop....
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George Malcolm Young ( 1882 - 1959 ) was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age (1936). Sourced Portrait of an Age (1936) To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has...
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In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen....
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Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private ...
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The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a relationship with himself -- "this grace wherein we stand". This He does for the sake of what man is to inherit, to become. And for the mea...
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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred....
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Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself....
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The American psychologist and educator Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924) pioneered in developing psychology in the United States. His wide-ranging and prolific writings reveal a central theme best characterized as genetic psychology or ev...
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Christian Unity is not a secular unity, and must be prompted by no secular motive. The unity we seek is deeper than anything that the world offers. Communism, Fascism, National Socialism, and even Shintoism have proved their ability to bin...
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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life....
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EPIPHANY The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people...
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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. -G.W. Von Leibnitz....
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G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a la...
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George Douglas Howard Cole (1889-1959) was an English historian, economist, and guild socialist. His teaching, writing, and commitment to political activism affected three generations of Englishmen. The son of a builder in West London, G. ...
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Born January 30, 1903, in Cambridge, England, Hutchinson was the son of Arthur Hutchinson, a professor of mineralogy at Cambridge University, and Evaline Demeny Shipley Hutchinson, an ardent feminist. He demonstrated an early interest in f...
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American Engineer and Writer 1928-1997 Engineer, author, visionary, and hobbyist extraordinaire, G. Harry Stine is best known as the father of model rocketry for his efforts to bring science and safety to the building and launching of mode...
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[In] so far as we are concerned with the overall style or structure of G, one notices that Mr Berger attempts to translate Cubism into literary terms by employing and rather overtaxing many of the devices used in recent years by Sarraute, S...
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Though G.S. Fraser is far better known as a critic and literary historian, it is as a poet that he wished to be remembered. A writer of published verse by age sixteen, Fraser turned to literary journalism and teaching in order to make a li...
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English electrical engineer who first developed the concept of a microprocessor. In a paper written in the early 1950s, Dummer proposed a single, monolithic device that would contain a great number of circuits and electronic components. Th...
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G. William Domhoff was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on August 6, 1936, the son of George William and Helen S. (Cornet) Domhoff. He married Judy Boman, a nursery school teacher, on August 28, 1961. They had four children: Lynne, Lori, William ...
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In 1944, social and economic concerns, higher education, veterans' issues, and federal legislation merged in a way never before experienced in the history of the United States with the passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment...
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SOURCE: Shargel, Raphael. “Gender and Genre Bending.” New Leader 80, no. 15 (22 September 1997): 20-1. In the following review, Shargel faults G.I. Jane for paying lip-service to a strong female protagonist, while the film's overall ton...
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The GI Joe action figure, a plastic doll twelve inches tall and dressed as a military man, was the first action figure and the first exclusively boy's doll, disguised as a war toy. Extremely popular, it was at the same time controve...
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Gabe Newell (born November 3 , 1962 ) is the co-founder and managing director of game development company Valve Corporation . Sourced The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what c...
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Life is much like writing in ink : All you can do is read over your past and look forward to a blank page for your future that will soon be filled with words that can never be erased. The cold absolute truth is much more preferred than a k...
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Salt is exuded in perspiration and other body excretions and must be replaced; therefore salt is absolutely necessary for human beings. Salt is also useful for preserving and flavoring food, but it is not evenly distributed throughout the ...
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Gabonese Republic République Gabonaise CAPITAL: Libreville FLAG: The flag is a tricolor of green, golden yellow, and royal blue horizontal stripes. ANTHEM: La Concorde (Harmony). MONETARY UNIT: The Communauté Financièr...
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1797-1876 French physician who pioneered the field of blood pathology and wrote the first textbook on internal medicine. Andral studied the blood of both animals and humans, and was the first to describe the proportions of the constituents...
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Gabriel Omar Batistuta (born 1 February 1969 ) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker for the Argentine national team. He played most of his club football at ACF Fiorentina in Italy. Sourced I've always given everythin...
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