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«The mind, that ocean where each kind / Does straight its own resemblance find; / Yet it creates, transcending these, / Far other worlds, and other seas, / Annihilating all that's made / To a green thought in a green shade.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, annihilating, Other Worlds, resemblance, seas, sea green, shade, transcending, worlds
«There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them»
«The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
| About:
Funny,
Optimism
| Keywords:
best of all, optimist, pessimist, possible worlds, worlds
«This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it»
«Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born.»
«The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
divided, divided by, dividing line, interaction, interactions, powerless, sharp, worlds
«We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
foothold, journeys, prepare for, ships, The New Moon, worlds
«Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Language,
Media
| Keywords:
creating, gimmick, gimmicks, languages, media, New Beginnings, new media, worlds
«The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
alien, innermost, knock, outer, shrine, The Traveler, traveler, worlds
«The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
drift, drifted, persuade, worlds
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