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1. Famous quotations
   Famous quotations The contents of this page has been moved to the Wikimedia sister project Wikiquote. You can follow there to add or view famous quotations.
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2. King James Version of the Bible
   however, enjoyed little popular esteem, and its popularity was eclipsed by the Geneva Bible, whose marginal notes espoused a Protestantism that was too Puritan and radical for King James's taste. Frontispiece to the first edition of the King James Bible At the Hampton Court conference, King James proposed that a new translation be commissioned to settle the controversies, and hopefully, to replace the Geneva Bible and its offensive notes in the popular esteem. King James gave the translators instructions, which were designed to discourage polemical notes, and to guarantee that the new version would be conformed to the ecclesiology of the
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3. Kitsch
   the aesthetic of art work was confused with a sense of exaggerated sentimentality or melodrama, its most closely associated with art that is sentimental, mawkish, or maudlin; however, it can be used to refer to any type of art which is defficient for similar reasons--whether it tries to appear "sentimental", "cool", "glamorous", "theatrical", or "creative", kitsch is said to be a gesture imitative of the superficial appearances of art. It's often said that kitsch relies on merely repeating convention and formula, lacking the sense of truth and beauty displayed in real art. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 1.1 Avant-Garde and
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4. Kurt Vonnegut
   as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric. He attributed his unadorned writing style to his reporting work. His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. This event would also form the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five, a book which would make him a millionaire. Table
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5. James Joyce
   James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Life 2 Quotations 2.1 from Joyce 2.2 about Joyce 3 Related topics 4
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6. Jan Hus
   an inference from the fact that his followers honored his memory on July 6, the day of his death, and the year is probably too late; he was burned at the stake in Constance, June 6, 1415. John Huss is his common English designation, but the name is more correctly written, according to Slavic spelling, Hus. It is an abbreviation from his birthplace made by himself about 1399; in earlier life he was always known as Johann or Jan Hussinetz, or, in Latin, Johannes de Hussinetz. His parents were Czechs, in narrow circumstances. Like Luther, he had to earn his living
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7. James Thurber
   darker material. "The Dog Who Bit People" and "The Night the Bed Fell on My Father" are among his best best short stories; they can be found in My Life and Hard Times. Also notable, and often anthologized, are "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "The Greatest Man in the World" and "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomat 2000 tox", which can be found in The Thurber Carnival. A network television show based on Thurber's writings and life, entitled My World and Welcome To It was broadcast 1969 to 1970. Thurber died at age 66 in New York City. Biographies of Thurber
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8. Jack Valenti
   barred studios and many independent producers from sending screener copies of their films to critics and voters in various awards shows. Under mounting industry pressure, conceded a small victory to pro-screener forces to allow screeners to be sent out to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voting members only (and only on condition that voters sign an extensive contract agreeing to not distrubute their copy), leading to further outcry from film critics, producers, non-voting Academy members (legendary agent Ed Limato resigned his Academy membership over the issue) and other awards. Quotations "I sleep each night a little better, a little
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9. Janet Malcolm
   educated at the University of Michigan. Janet Malcolm lives in New York with her second husband, Gardner Botsford. Her works include: Inside The Freud Archives The Journalist and The Murderer Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, an examination of the notoriously closed psychoanalytic community. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, which contains the excellent essay, "A Girl of the Zeitgeist." Essays and features on photography criticism Her book, Inside The Freud Archives, triggered a $10M legal challenge by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, who claimed that Malcolm had libelled him by fabricating explosive quotations by him that brought
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10. James Mill
    as a preacher, but met with little success. From 1790 to 1802, in addition to holding various tutorships, he occupied himself with historical and philosophical studies. Finding little prospect of a career in Scotland, in 1802 he went to London in company with Sir John Stuart, then member of parliament for Kincardineshire, and devoted himself to literary work. From 1803 to 1806 he was editor of an ambitious periodical called the Literary Journal, which professed to give a summary view of all the leading departments of human knowledge. During this time he also edited the St James's Chronicle, belonging to the
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11. James Mackintosh
    spring of 1791. The excesses of the revolutionaries compelled him a few years later to oppose them and agree with Burke, but his earlier defence of the rights of man is a valuable statement of the cultured Whig's point of view at the time. The width of his intellectual sympathies, joined to a constitutional indecision and vis inertiae, prevented him from doing more enduring work. His History of the Revolution in England, breaking off at the point where William of Orange is preparing to intervene in the affairs of England, is chiefly interesting because of Macaulay's admiring essay on it and
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12. Jerry Maguire
    stars Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, Renee Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King and Jonathan Lipnicki. Reagan Gomez-Preston had a minor role in the movie. The movie was written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Tom Cruise), Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Famous Quotations Jerry Maguire: What can I do for YOU, Rod? Rod Tidwell: It's a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it's a family
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13. Jerome Cavanagh
    ghettos in Harlem and elsewhere in the North. ... more than 40% of the negro population own their own houses. Nor was Detroit doing so badly economically. From the National Observer: "The evidence, both statistical and visual, is everywhere. Retail sales are up dramatically. Earnings are higher. Unemployment is lower. People are putting new aluminum sidings on their homes, new carpets on the floor, new cars in the garage. "Some people are forsaking the suburbs and returning to the city. Physically Detroit has acquired freshness and vitality. Acres of slums have been razed, and steel and glass apartments, angular and lonely
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14. Jesus Christ as the Messiah
    Eucharist. Some contemporary scholars are focusing on Jesus' parables, a unique type of teaching story found only in the three synoptic gospels. Much of this work gained a foothold in America during the early 1980s by a group of biblical scholars known as the Jesus Seminar. There is renewed interest in the teachings of Jesus, after decades of decline in Church membership in the developed world.The Alpha Course has allowed many people to study the message of Jesus in non-evangelistic settings. Arrest, sentencing, and crucifixion According to the Gospels, Jesus, riding a colt, entered Jerusalem on a Sunday—celebrated now as Palm
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15. Jorge Luis Borges
    Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986) was an Argentinian writer who is considered to be one of the foremost South American writers of the 20th century. Sometimes referred to by his initials, "JLB", Borges is best-known in the English-speaking world for his short stories. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Life 2 Work 3 Borges as Argentine 4 Borges as World Citizen 5 Works 5.1 Quotations 5.2 Original Book-length Publications 5.3 Book-length interviews in English 5.4 Screenplays 5.5 Other works of note 5.6 English-language publication 5.6.1 Collections originally in English 5.7 Short Stories 5.8
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16. Victoria of the United Kingdom
    the Royal House of Hanover (May 24, 1819 - January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for a record sixty-three years, seven months, and two days (June 20, 1837 - January 22, 1901). She was also Empress of India (January 1, 1877 - January 22, 1901). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Birth and background 2 Victoria and Albert 3 Mrs Brown 4 Empress of India 5 Grandmother of Europe 6 Quotations 7 Children of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert 8 Footnotes Birth and background She was born on May 24, 1819, to Edward Augustus,
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17. Joseph Heller
    years and in 1952 returned to New York and worked as a writer in advertising for Time, Look, and McCall's. In 1953 he wrote the beginning of "Catch 18" which, in 1961, was to be published as the famous Catch-22. In addition to novels, he wrote stage plays, screenplays, short stories, articles, memoirs and reviews. Heller also wrote: Something Happened (1974) Good As Gold (1979) God Knows (1984) Picture This (1988) Closing Time (1994) Now And Then (1999) Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man (2000) There is a Joseph Heller Archive University at South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library [1].
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18. Joseph E. Stiglitz
    Lawrence Summers. Stiglitz' most famous research was on screening, a technique used by one economic agent to extract otherwise private information from another. It was for this contribution to the theory of information asymmetries that he shared the Nobel prize with George A. Akerlof and A. Michael Spence. Along with his technical economic publ 2000 ications, Stiglitz is the author of Whither Socialism, a nonmathematical book providing an introduction to the theories behind economic socialism's failure in Eastern Europe, the role of imperfect information in markets, and misconceptions about how truly "free market" our free market capitalist system operates. In 2002, he wrote
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19. John Gerson
    of his office. He did so in his Sermo coram Alexandro Papa in die ascensionis in concilio Pisano (ii. 131). All hopes of reformation, however, were quenched by the conduct of the new pope. He had been a Franciscan, and loved his order above measure. He issued a bull which laid the parish clergy and the universities at the mercy of the mendicants. The great university of Paris rose in revolt, headed by her chancellor, who wrote a fierce pamphlet--Censura professorum in theologia circa izullam Alexandri V (ii. 442). The pope died soon after, and one of the most profligate men
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20. John Selden
    parliamentary records then held at the Tower of London. For some reason, Selden very rarely practised in court, but his practice in chambers as a conveyancer and consulting counsel was large and apparently lucrative. It was, however, as a scholar and writer that Selden won his reputation. His first work, an account of the civil administration of England before the Norman Conquest, is said to have been completed when he was only twenty-two or twenty-three. But if this was the Analecion Anglo-Britannicon, as is generally supposed, he did not publish it until 1613. In 1610 three of his works came out:
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