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Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember is a 2005 book by United States Senator John McCain with Mark Salter. Published by Random House , it is a collection of biographies about individuals from the past and present who, in the authors' view, exemplify the best qualities of character.
The Last Time I Lied was first published in hardback and ebook format in the United States on July 3, 2018, through Dutton. [2] An audiobook adaptation narrated by Nicol Zanzarella was released simultaneously through Penguin Audio. [3] The book has been published in the United Kingdom and has been translated into Chinese and German. [4] [5] [6]
On the Decay of the Art of Lying" is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. (1882). [1] [2] In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful ...
Frankfurt originally published the essay "On Bullshit" in the Raritan Quarterly Review in 1986. Nineteen years later, it was published as the book On Bullshit (2005), which proved popular among lay readers; the book appeared for 27 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list [3] and was discussed on the television show The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, [4] [5] as well as in an online interview.
In this essay, arguing against the position of Benjamin Constant, Des réactions politiques, Kant states that: [2]. Hence a lie defined merely as an intentionally untruthful declaration to another man does not require the additional condition that it must do harm to another, as jurists require in their definition (mendacium est falsiloquium in praeiudicium alterius).
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story) is a young adult/middle grade autobiographical novel [1] by Daniel Nayeri, published August 25, 2020 by Levine Querido.In 2021, the book won the Michael L. Printz Award, [2] Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature, [3] and Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature.
Some Character-Types Met within Psycho-Analytic Work is an essay by Sigmund Freud from 1916, comprising three character studies—of what he called 'The Exceptions', 'Those Wrecked by Success' and 'Criminals from a Sense of Guilt'.
Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane.. The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations.