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«Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.»
«Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.»
Author: Margaret Fuller
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
dualism, female, feminine, fluid, fluids, hardens, masculine, perpetually, purely, radical, represent, rushes, solid
«One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen»
Author: Philip Wylie
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
citizen, delinquent, delinquents, lifetime, solid, solidest
«Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.»
Author: Pope Paul VI
(Pope)
| Keywords:
continuous, derived, liturgy, renewal, solid, solid ground, tree trunk, trunk, trunks
«Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!»
«It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.»
«If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.»
Author: Pythagoras
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calm, depth, fluid, fluids, heat, height, prosperity, rough, smooth, soft, solid, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cast iron, concrete, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, density, emptiness, incredible, linked, mostly, one iron, physicist, physicists, powerfully, properties, scattered, solid, specks
«Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
natural state, solid
«Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
baked, bakes, baking, engage, half-baked, pains, quest, questing, quest after, quest for, rarely, solid, solutions, universal, willingly
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