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Letter "P" » piling
«Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.»
Author: Martin H. Fischer
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Knowledge,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
facts, piles, pile up, piling, process, simplification, The Pile
«A new breed of broker making $300,000 a year in London hot traders [who] are likely to be thirtyish, a bit cheeky and more interested in piling up commissions than meeting club cronies for a late afternoon brandy at Boodle's or White's.»
«Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed»
«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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«Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
gloss, glosses, in the same breath, piling, relevant, self-satisfied, Sisyphus, six hundred, string
«I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
piling
«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:
better half, creatures, decreed, decreeing, flock, good and, mankind, miserable, mud, One half, persecutor, pile, piles, pile up, piling, pronounce, pronouncing, surface, surfaced, surfaces, surface of, The Pile, thrown
«As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger»
Author: Fidel Castro
| Keywords:
arsenals, hunger, illiterate, illness, mightiest, piling, sophisticated, wealthier, wealthiest, weapons
«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
«Add little to little and there will be a big pile»
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