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Letter "G" » geographical
«Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor it it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape--political, economic, social, even geographical--is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
| Keywords:
benefits, contribution, ephemera, fireflies, firefly, flare, flares, flare up, geographical, glimpsed, historical, illumine, illumined, illumines, intermittent, landscape, oblivion, pass across, Political history, settle, social event, to be sure, vista, vistas
«Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.»
Author: Faith Baldwin
| Keywords:
abysses, deserts, geographical, oases, oasis, plateau, plateaus, reaping, seasons, seeming, sowing, the Endless
«Italy is only a geographical expression»
«Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression»
«The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post office direct»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
alphabetical, arrangement, arranging, geographical, post, post office, The Post Office
«Sin is geographical.»
«A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
geographical
«India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
equator, geographical, India, term
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