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«The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
amniotic, amniotic fluid, conceal, corresponds, depth, female, fluid, fluids, indestructible, menses, monsters, personified, personify, respond, sailors, spawn, spawned, spawning, surface, swallows, The New Moon, threatening, tides, unregulated, unstable, Vessels
«They float upon the surface of the darkness in which I'm drowning.»
«No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.»
«The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Aristocracy,
Democracy
| Keywords:
American elder, aristocratic, breaking, colours, covered, democratic, from time to time, layer, layered, surface, surface of
«The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus.»
Author: Billy Graham
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ache, contentment, dependent, dependent on, distressing, enduring, environment, fills, go wrong, grinning, grins, inward, in the midst, midst, outward, relaxation, root, smiles, stimuli, stimulus, superficial, surface, undisturbed
«The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So»
«Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.»
«Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.»
«Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attached, attaching, attach to, earliest, Nothing More, stick, striking, surface
«The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acted, as a matter of fact, collect, on it, sensation, sense experience, surface, the senses
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