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Letter "S" » speculations
«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:
Books,
History,
Literature
| Keywords:
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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
| Keywords:
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«In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.»
«In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.»
Author: J.M. Synge
| Keywords:
gifted, peasants, penury, roadside, sinks, Son of, speculation, speculations, tramp, tramped, tramps
«Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief. The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.»
Author: Barbara Sher
| Keywords:
amazes, amazing, create, ignorance, imaginary, imaginary being, information, Information the, insurmountable, More information, Obstacles, ready, relief, smallest, solution, speculation, speculations, step, The Amazing, the smallest
«Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
advanced, almost all, discussions, infancy, modern science, speculations, statesman
«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:
burden, ease, extensive, fever, fevers, heat, needful, speculation, speculations, widen, widened, widens
«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:
Philosophy of, speculation, speculations
«Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations»
«Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
generally, indeed, jealousies, jealousy, lovers, speculations, spice, spiced
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