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«An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?»
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes
(President, Statesman)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
Alexander, Alexander Graham Bell, amazing, bell, graham, invention, march, patented, Pennsylvania, telephone, telephones, telephone bell, telephone call, Washington
«`Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. `I do,' Alice hastily replied; `at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.'»
«Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.»
«Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will»
«for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.»
«How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy»
«He wondered what the mans name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil at heart, or what lies or threats had lead him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really have rather stayed there in peace»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
at heart, came, Coming Home, Long March, mans, march, march on, name, stayed, The Long, the threat of, Threats, wondered
«Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live...»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
arisen, a million times, blast, carried, civilizations, cohort, cohorts, dares, deluge, deluges, earlier, embattled, existed, followed, gloom, Greece, groaned, groans, history of ideas, India, intense, march, marched, modern history, modern times, orphans, peacefully, peer, peering, prevailed, soak, soaked, The Deluge, thousand million, tradition, trumpets, until now, wailed, widowed, widows, world record
«Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
come before, daffodil, dares, march, swallow, winds
«Beware the Ides of March»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
beware, bewares, ides, march, march on
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