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An inspiration engine for ideas
The master of the academy, William Weatherald, had a major impact on the boy, implanting in him a love of literature and the essentials of mathematics and other practical sciences and fostering more than a little of the gentle religiosity of Quakerism.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
He brimmed with that most conventional and embarrassing of qualities—“taste.”
Hernan Diaz • Trust
Alexis de Tocqueville
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Before the day was through, he had given a six-hour speech (no break for lunch) that was brilliant, courageous, and, in retrospect, completely daft.
Ron Chernow • Alexander Hamilton
It was the proposal of a fanatic.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.