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Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Alberto Manguel

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Alberto Manguel
Argentinian - Novelist
Born: March 13, 1948

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

Edwidge Danticat

Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

John Burnside

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Edith Hamilton

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

William C. Brown

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

Ted Malloch

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

Paolo Gentiloni

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Berenice Abbott

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

Giulio Douhet

Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.

Alex Ferguson

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

Maria Montessori

Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

Andreas Feininger

The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

Kate Millett

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

Carl Jung

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