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«Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of a hit-and-run.»
Author: Branch Rickey
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
execution, flawless, hit-and-run, outer, penetrate, reaches, witness
«My witness is the empty sky.»
«Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.»
«No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
achievements, bear witness, convince, shortcoming, shortcomings, transgressions, witness
«I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
cinema, conversationalist, decline, dimensions, exerted, incomparable, Irish, remained, revive, revives, reviving, technical, The Decline, the Irish, witness
«Life without a friend is like death without a witness»
«I am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the refuge, the friend, the origin, the dissolution, the foundation, the substratum, and the imperishable seed.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
abode, dissolution, imperishable, origin, substratum, supporter, supporters, the Origin, witness
«Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
bear, potential, sculpture, sculptures, silent, wit, witness, witnessing
«Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.»
«Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
false witness, forbid, Interesting Times, interests, murder, observation, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, Precepts, reflection, require, steal, witness
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