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Letter "P" » pile up
«Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.»
Author: Martin H. Fischer
| About:
Knowledge,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
facts, piles, pile up, piling, process, simplification, The Pile
«A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities / courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning / whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
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«Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
difficulty, high, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, piled, piles, pile up, piling, rise, The Pile
«The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.»
«A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.»
«Add little to little and there will be a big pile»
«When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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