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«The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
continuous, Order The, revelation, sequence, significance, The Sequence, thread
«The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
continuous, formation, formations, Ready made, the self
«The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.»
Author: Norman O. Brown
| Keywords:
construction, continuous, human body, self-destruction, static, structure, substance, the human body
«People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
anguish, blindness, continuous, denial, denial of, deteriorates, erudition, favored, futile, handful, ill health, ill will, lay aside, nights, partial, pitied, premature, rephrase, self-torture, sleep late, sweetest, take up, torture
«The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
achievements, actualities, admirable, American history, breaking off, break off, conspicuous, continuous, exertions, gap, grandly, increased, Marks, peoples, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, singularly, spur, The Admirable, The Gap
«Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
another planet, continuous, distant, ours, our planet, perhaps, pick, pick up, planets, scream, screamed, screams, wavelength
«Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...»
«The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
academic, academic freedom, aspect, continuous, dialogue, horizon| Occasions:
Graduation
«There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?»
«These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous account of the creation, written by Moses, contain two different and contradictory stories of a creation, made by two different persons, and written in»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
account, account of the creation, chapters, contain, containing, continuous, contradictories, contradictory, Genesis, Moses, stories, The Creation
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