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«If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him»
«Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion»
«It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
annihilating, baroque, contradicts, cupola, defies, denies, gable, gables, gigantic, high-pitched, lines, megalopolis, pinnacle, pinnacles, pitched, related, silhouette, silhouettes, Something Different, spire, spires, The City
«I once made the mistake of telling someone that I always wanted to be a barrister - and I got a pitying look, flollowed by an article along lines 'the poor little tart thinks she could get a proper job, but look at the way she photographs'»
«I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... And think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries... Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences ...»
«In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.»
«Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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charitable, goodwill, includes, lines, line of work, reform, sympathy, The Suffering, work in
«If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
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Education,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
antiquated, bettering, conceived, hoped, lines, transmission
«In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.»
Author: Paul Klee
(Artist)
| Keywords:
analysis, dimensions, drawing, draw the line, execution, Final Analysis, imaginary, in the final analysis, lines, Long line, profoundly, projection, projections, self sufficient, symbol
«I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, beauties, curves, goddesses, gods and goddesses, Greeks, lines, rhythmical, sculpture, sensitive, subtly, throbbing, throbs
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