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«The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway»
Author: Michael Pollan
| Keywords:
garden, halfway, meet, meeting place, might, place, suggesting, suggests, The Garden
«A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| Keywords:
aims, benign, insofar, invariably, meeting place, service station, societies, station
«Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet»
Author: Wendy Kaminer
| Keywords:
jargon, jargon of, left brain, meeting place, right brain, the left
«So, friend, when I first looked upon your face, our thoughts gave answer each to each. Opposed mirrors each reflecting each, although I knew not in what time or place, methought that I had often met with you, and each had lived in other's mind and speech.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| Keywords:
meeting of minds, meeting place, mirrors, opposed, reflecting
«I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.»
«The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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creating, fail, lack, majorities, majority, meet, meeting place, new, New Man, persistence, place, plans, taking place
«As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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affronted, affronts, meeting place, rubs, sore
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarmed, alarming, ambitious, at rest, authors, betters, clock, dormitory, dreariest, dreary, dumped, dumping, dumps, envy, eternal rest, fame, Higher Ground, High Hopes, meeting place, oblivion, Pride and, storage, struggling, The Alarm, The State, wicked
«Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Progress
| Keywords:
ambitious, instinctive, meeting place
«The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
meeting place, Return Of, The Return, The Return of, The Stage
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