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Letter "A" » ascending
«I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.»
Author: Edward Gorey
(Artist, Author, Designer, Illustrator)
| Keywords:
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«What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.»
Author: Georg Cantor
| About:
Infinity,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
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«The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line»
Author: Joanna Field
| About:
Growth
| Keywords:
ascending, spiral, spiraling, spirals, straight line
«The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh»
«What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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ascending, expanding, graduating, gyre, gyres, intense, large scale, pushes, scale, significance, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, / Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.»
«And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.»
Author: Bible
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ascending, behold, descending, dreamed, ladder, reached, set up, The Angels, up on
«Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.»
«Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ascending, ascends, dissolution, evolution, followed, line, progress, retrogression, rhythms, rhythm and, spiral, spiraling, spirals, straight
«Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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