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«Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.»
Author: Anne Raver
| About:
Citizenship
| Keywords:
connected, connection, corn, corns, gardens, scholars, The Land
«[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
absorb, allows, concept, connected, domains, elusive, insightful, relate, sharpness
«Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.»
«Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.»
«Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.»
«Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.»
«And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.»
Author: Spike Milligan
(Actor, Humorist)
| Keywords:
board, boarded, boarding, Board of, connected, electricity, Let There Be Light, There was, Thursday, Thursdays
«From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
bond, connected, countless, dead soul, earnestly, exert, give in, in return, labors, Labor Day, order of the day, outer, received, standpoint, sympathy, well-being
«For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abstractions, connected, immensity, inseparably, intensity, public figure, ruined, spiritual world, The Spiritual
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
apology, blot, blunders, connected, damning, emphasis, exacted, expiation, formal, humiliations, inadequacies, inadequacy, incidental, incidental to, memorials, poisonous, pound, soaked, stamps, strew, subtlest, vocation
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