John Chadwick quotes
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“Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution.”
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“It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.”
-- John ChadwickSource : John Chadwick (2014). “The Decipherment of Linear B”, p.4, Cambridge University Press
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“This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.”
-- John ChadwickSource : John Chadwick (2014). “The Decipherment of Linear B”, p.46, Cambridge University Press
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Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
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“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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