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Letter "A" » as yet
«Little figures on a little screen showed newsreel footage, talked about the war with maps and pointers, unable to compete as yet with radio.»
«It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.»
Author: Alan Kay
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Computers
| Keywords:
as such, as yet, barely, degrees, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, Freedom of expression, investigated, representation
«Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.»
Author: Anthony Trollope
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as yet, awkward, blush, gait, hobbledehoy, limbs, meetings, penance, shy, straggling, ungainly, ungraceful, unnerve, unnerved, unnerving
«Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
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as yet, buried, enable, myth, nourished, region, unexplored
«Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: / Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: / (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) / Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.»
«Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.»
«Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Destiny
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as yet, exercises, influence, lays, The Law
«Self-respect The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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as yet, secure, self-respecting, self respect, suspicious
«I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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apartments, as yet, compare, describe, mansion, The Apartment, The Apartments, The Doors
«Progress is The law of life, man is not man as yet»
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