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Letter "F" » flat
«The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church»
Author: Ferdinand Magellan
(Explorer, Navigator)
| About:
Church,
Earth
| Keywords:
flat, flats, round, The Church, The Shadow
«The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.»
Author: William H. Gass
| Keywords:
condone, condoned, condones, condoning, contention, contentions, flat, irrationally, lingers, represents, The Times
«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
| Keywords:
atoms, banal, color television, composed, dial, dials, dimensions, disappeared, dot, dots, dotted, drained, flat, flicker, flickering, flickers, lament, microscopic, phenomena, reassure, reassuring, reduced, registered, screen, sharply, The Dial, the movie, trivial, two dimensions
«One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.»
Author: Rachel Carson
| Keywords:
bay, flat, headland, horizons, rim, rimmed, rims, surrounded, The Bay
«Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.»
«The PC will continue to evolve. In fact, you'll think of it simply as a flat screen that will range from a wallet size device to a notebook, to a desktop, to a wall. And besides the size of the screen, the only other characteristic will be whether it»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
characteristic, desktop, device, flat, notebook, notebooks, range, screen, the screen
«Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
art critic, critic, exposing, flat, protecting, surfaces, The Critic
«There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.»
«Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
flat, grind, in some way
«O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
flat, stale, stales, staling, unprofitable, weary
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