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«It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas Oriental civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness»
Author: Frederic Spiegelberg
| Keywords:
applies, atom, atom bomb, atom bombs, bombs, circumstance, discovers, manufacture, Oriental, remarkable, The Oriental, Western
«Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!»
Author: W.J. Reichmann
| Keywords:
categories, classification, classifications, classified, exceptions, labelled, lending, neatly, outrageous, pretensions, propensity, remarkable
«My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
flattery, passport, passports, photo, photographs, remarkable, retouch, retouching, stark, starkest, The photo
«Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Learning,
Mankind
| Keywords:
almost, apparent, beings, disinclination, human beings, remarkable, unique
«One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
annoying, driver, free will, license, licensed, licenses, licensing, remarkable, up on
«It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
beaten, fall into, insensibly, remarkable, route, routes, track
«It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
fortitude, remarkable, resignation, resignations, The Suffering
«In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Authority,
Law and lawyers,
Truth
| Keywords:
accepted, divine law, good authority, in truth, lawgiver, remarkable, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to
«Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.»
«Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
exception, moose, remarkable, singing, spats, summer, wonders
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