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Letter "S" » speculation
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
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Literature
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«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
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«Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.»
Author: Mary Schmich
| Keywords:
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«An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the Burden of the Mystery»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
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«Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.»
«FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war --founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting --such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.»
«Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.»
«How necessary was the care of the Creator in making the moral principle so much a part of our constitution as that no errors reasoning or of speculation might lead us astray from its observance in practice.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
astray, in practice, moral principle, observance, speculation
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