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Letter "T" » tales
«The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
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«The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.»
«The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.»
«Very old are we men; / Our dreams are tales / Told in dim Eden / By Eve's nightingales.»
«Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter»
Author: African Proverb
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«Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
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«Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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artificially, buzz, buzzes, buzzing, tales, whisperings
«These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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circus, crystallization, resulted, tales, The Circus, tones, vivid
«What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Appearance
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colors, prose, recited, recites, reciting, stripped, tales
«The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city and county, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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