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«Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.»
Author: Edward Steichen
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
confusion, explaining, gamut, human face, inherited, inheriting, inherits, major, photography, records, skies, written record
«Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.»
«It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things»
«I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.»
«Explaining something sensible to Lord Killanin is akin to explaining something to a cauliflower. The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.»
«Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
children, explaining, forever, grown, themselves, tiresome, understand
«George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
bush, bushes, explaining, George, George Bush, George I, gore, gored, gores, of course, the George
«Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
Army of, army officer, commissioned, explaining, fortunate, go about, machinery, President Washington, seashore, uninterrupted
«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
diligently, engrave, engraved, engraves, engraving, engravings, explaining, Gates, Gates of Hell, Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures, schools, scriptures
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