John G. Stoessinger
- Kaiser Wilhelm's Reaction to the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Wilhelm was a moody man with a mercurial tempter. The romantic predicament of his Austrian friend had appealed to him, and he had formed a deep and apparently personal attachment to him. He was deeply shaken when he heard that the Archduke's last words to his wife were "Sophie, Sophie, do not die, live for our children," before death claimed them both, and his fury and indignation toward the Serbians were thoroughly aroused; he described them as "bandits" and "murderers."
Stand and Deliver (1988)
- Math Lesson
Zero? You're right. Simple. That's it. Minus two plus two equals zero. He just filled the hole. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans were capable of using the concept of zero. It was your ancestors, the Mayas, who first contemplated the zero. The absence of value. True story. You burros have math in your blood.
Robin Williams, in Dead Poet's Society (1989)
- Mr. Keating, on poetry
You must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, "That's baaaaad." Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Now, I want you to find your own walk right now. Your own way of striding, pacing. Any direction. Anything you want. Whether it's proud, whether it's silly, anything. Gentlemen, the courtyard is yours.
Stand and Deliver (1988)
- Math Lesson
0? You're right. Simple. That's it. Minus 2 plus 2 equals 0. He just filled the hole. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans were capable of using the concept of zero. It was your ancestors, the Mayas, who first contemplated the zero. The absence of value. True story. You burros have math in your blood.
Robin Williams, in "Dead Poets Society"
- John Keating: "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May"
'O Captain, my Captain.' Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class, you can either call me "Mr. Keating," or if you're slightly more daring, "O Captain, my Captain." Now let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts. Yes, I too attended Hell-ton and survived. And no, at that time I was not the mental giant you see before you. I was the intellectual equivalent of a ninety-eight pound weakling.
United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 2 (edited for length)
Everyone is entitled to all the rights ... set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country ... to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
We know through painful experience that freedom must be demanded by the oppressed. For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never." It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide... The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.
@jacksonm (me)
- A List of Random Words from a Random Word Generator
Stop, parallel, creepy, experience, implore, son, irate, fantastic, sprout, bedroom, cleave, grip, mind, lift, connection, itchy, domineering, liquid, mistake, furniture, bury, elbow, flaky, outrageous, thrive, conserve, mushy, contain, aftermath, adventurous, save, cemetery, propose, have, eyes, tongue, scandalous, sweep, alcoholic, shake, gifted, monkey, tremendous, soda, bag, humdrum, lie, haircut, latch, dress, shine, busy, aunt, can, design, fairies, heavy, crashing, nervous, quarrelsome.
Medicine and Surgery: A Concise Textbook
- Causes of coronary artery disease (practice typing long words), and edited into a grammatically correct sentence
The most common cause of heart failure in the United Kingdom is coronary artery disease (65%). Causes include myocardial dysfunction (ischaemic, hypertensive heart disease, or cardiomyopathy), inadequate cardiac outflow, (valvular regurgitation, or aortic stenosis), cardiac arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation), inadequate ventricular filling (constrictive pericarditis, cardiac tamponade, or tachycardias), and increased demand (anaemia, thyrotoxicosis, Paget's disease, or beriberi).
ThePracticeTest.com
- Financial Reporting
Income before securities transactions was up 10.8 percent from $13.49 million in 1982 to $14.95 million in 1983. Earnings per share (adjusted for a 10.5 percent stock dividend distributed on August 26) advanced 10 percent to $2.39 in 1983 from $2.17 in 1982. Earnings may rise for 7 years. Hopefully, earnings per share will grow another 10 percent. Kosy, Klemin, and Bille began selling on May 23, 1964.
Nicole Scherzinger
- I love a man with...
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.
Jodi Picoult
- Handle With Care
You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
Harper Lee
- Why It's A Sin To Kill A Mockingbird
That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corn cribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Thomas Jefferson
- Second Amendment
Constitution of United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992) Amendment II: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
William Shakespeare
- "What's Hecuba to him, or he (to Hecuba)?"
What's Hecuba to him, or he to (Hecuba,) that he should weep for her? What would he do had he the motive and (the cue) for passion that I have? He would drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech, make mad the guilty and appall the free, confound the ignorant and amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, a dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, and can say nothing.
