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«Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.»
Author: Pope Paul VI
(Pope)
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
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«The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Self-esteem,
Self-love
| Keywords:
glasses, glass eye, look upon, magnifies, magnifying
«The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
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«How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.»
Author: Samuel Beckett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Almighty, magnifies, magnify, magnifying, poorer, the Almighty
«Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
exists, interesting, magnifies, magnify, magnifying, multiply, significant
«Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun»
«Fame is a magnifying glass»
«There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
dropping, fourteen, glove, magnifies, scales, The Empire, weighs
«A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
magnifies, magnifying, microscope, microscopes, The Microscope, trifled, trifling
«Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantages, enterprises, hazard, magnifies, magnifying, undertaken
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