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Letter "I" » inspection
«A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.»
«Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
confirmed, delay, falsehood, haste, inspection, uncertainty
«There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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accessible, beckon, beckoned, beckoning, beckons, contemplation, inspection, liberation, partly, riddle
«Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.»
«The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Appearance,
World
| Keywords:
inspection, look into, mirror image, uglier
«We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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