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«Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.»
Author: Edward Weston
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«Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.»
«[Leningrad] sits astride the Neva, frozen in time, a haunting m?lange of pale hues, glorious fa?ades and teeming ghosts.»
«I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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«Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
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«The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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falsehoods, instances, persecution, put down, refute, refutes, refuting, set back, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, triumphs
«The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf -the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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all but, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, Out of the Past, retrospect, shadows, sleeper, sleepers, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, The Shadows, unfathomed
«All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.»
«This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.»
«O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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crocodiles, teem, The Crocodile
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