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«Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.»
Author: Vance Havner
| Keywords:
ape, asylum, blowtorch, dynamite, inmate, inmates, Monkeys, operate, operating room, reminds, taking over, zoo, zoos
«I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
capsule, dynamite, go off, gunpowder, of my own, placed, place setting, samples, set off, set to, show off, time capsule
«CORONATION, n. The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
coronation, divine right, dynamite, investing, sky-high, skyhigh
«The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or You can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You can mix nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite. You can blow up bridges. You can mix nitroglycerin with more nitric acid and parafin and make gelatin explosives. You can blow up a building, easy. With enough soap, you can blow up the whole world.»
«All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Communication,
Silence
| Keywords:
charged, cultivate, dynamite, emotions, habitually, low, noise, quietness, speech
«I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
associated, collision, collisions, crisis, demanded, dynamite, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, frightful, profoundest, recollection, recollections, sanctified, sanctifies, sanctifying
«I am no man. I am dynamite.»
«I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Alfred, Alfred Nobel, dynamite, Nobel, Nobel prize
«Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century»
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