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«I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.»
«No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.»
«Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.»
Author: Martin H. Fischer
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Knowledge,
Wisdom
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«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)
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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
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capacity, cunning, dreamt, illusion, miracle, naively, pile, piles, pile up, piling, qualities, The Miracle, The Pile, The Pleasure
«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)
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«The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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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:
bearing, bearings, cathedral, ceases, contemplated, contemplates, image, Imaged, Image An, Image The, imaging, my image, pile, piles, pile up, piling, rock, The Cathedral, The Image, The Pile, this image
«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.»
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