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Letter "C" » currents
«Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.»
Author: Martin Gardner
(Calligrapher, Mathematician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
altered, biographical, compulsive, currents, flotsam, generals, General Public, historical, jetsam, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, largely, mentioned, paranoid, paranoids, Political history, political leader, public schools, Queens, radically, scientists, voyager, voyagers
«I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.»
Author: Richard Wagner
(Composer)
| About:
Thought
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currents, ether, vibrate, Vibrates, vibrating, vibration, vibrations
«I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.»
Author: Drew Barrymore
(Actress)
| Keywords:
consistency, currents, highs, high and low, lows, more and more, ocean, soft, waves
«Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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Among the, chaotic, currents, long, moves, nobody, trouble
«Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides»
«Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
currents, distortion, hypocrisy, passing
«The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Poets
| Keywords:
adjusted, antisocial, currents, go along, sharpens, sleuth, tends, tends to, trends, well-adjusted
«In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
Above the Law, buys, corrupted, currents, gild, gilded, offence, shuffled, shuffles, shuffling, the Action
«Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
awry, cowards, currents, enterprises, hue, native, pale, pith, resolution, the pale
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