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Letter "F" » fathomed
«But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.»
«O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap / May who ne'er hung there.»
«All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.»
Author: Piers Anthony
| Keywords:
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«It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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depths, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, length, ocean, sailor
«By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Boredom
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civilizations, devices, earlier, fathomed, fathoms, inventing, manufactured, privileged
«But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. (Job 5:8-9)»
«If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.»
«How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Mathematics
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admirably, appropriate, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, Human thought, independent
«It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world»
«A minibar is a machine that makes everything expensive. When I take something out of the minibar, I always fathom that I'll go and replace it before they check it off, but they make that stuff impossible to replace. I go to the store and ask, 'Do you have coke in a glass harmonica? ...Do you have individually wrapped cashews?'»
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