Shaykh Zayid bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (born 1923) served for 18 years as the governor of the Buraimi Oasis and for five years as the ruler of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the Trucial States, before becoming president of the United Arab Emi...

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There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. Zealous, not modest. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when...

Kanze Zeami (1364-1444), also called Zeami Motokiyo, was a Japanese actor, playwright, and critic. His theoretical works on the art of the No are as justly celebrated as his dramas. It was the great esthete, statesman, and patron of the fi...

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Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894), U.S. senator and congressman, was Civil War governor of North Carolina. He is best known for his concern for the common Southerner and his noncooperation with Confederate authorities. Zebulon Vance was born...

In the autobiographical notes accompanying Paul Zech's contributions to the famous verse anthology Menschheitsdämmerung (The Dawn and Dusk of Mankind, 1920), edited by Kurt Pinthus, the poet writes of the self-imposed challenge that c...

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Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best....

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First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is....

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