Famous quotes containing the words james and/or rothschild:
“The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designerand that can be revealed only by the study of all natures particulars.”
—William James (18421910)
“Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of childrens toys,dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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