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«Our planet / is poorly equipped / for delight./ One must snatch / gladness / from the days that are. / In this life / it's not difficult to die. / To make life / is more difficult by far.»
Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
| Keywords:
by far, equipped, gladness, our planet, poorly, snatch, snatches, snatching
«The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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acquire, conceptual, developing, e'en, equip, equipped, equipping, equips, essentials, further, i.e., integrate, integrates, I E, student, theoretical, The Knowledge, training, train of thought
«This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
equipped, equipping, layer, layered, peasants, run by, There There
«The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.»
«Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.»
«The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped w»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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abuse, bring about, chain reaction, Discovery of, equipped, matches, nuclear power, reactions, safeguard, supranational, The Discovery
«What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
anywhere, basically, chokes, choke up, choking, computer, data, device, duck, equip, equipped, equipping, equips, exactly, exchanging, global, internet, Internet in, kazoo, modem, network, noise, noise like, The Internet, The Network
«You may possess vast riches, maintain virtuous conduct, have a spotless reputation and observe religious customs; you may have the loving affections of mother, father, children, siblings and friends; you may have armies well-equipped with weapons, and all may salute you with respect;»
«When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poets
| Keywords:
constantly, disparate, equip, equipped, equipping, equips, experiences, perfectly, poet
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