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«Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind»
Author: Paul Theroux
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
broaden, broadened, broadening, Broadens, contracts, encapsulation, extensive, induces, traveling
«A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Community,
World
| Keywords:
extensive, facilities, globe, ideals, scattered, software, tradition
«Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
autobiography, discontinuities, discontinuity, extensive, fleeting, Here I Am, recollection, reminiscence, reminiscences, The Sequence
«The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.»
«What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| Keywords:
covered, devise, embellish, embellished, embellishes, embellishing, execute, extensive, farms, forests, improvements, prosperous, ranged, republic, savages, stud, studded, studs, towns
«An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the Burden of the Mystery»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
burden, ease, extensive, fever, fevers, heat, needful, speculation, speculations, widen, widened, widens
«Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
denial, extensive, falsely, identified, imposed, injustices, stunt, stunted, stunting, tragedies
«Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
alliance, circulation, extensive, mingled, obtain
«Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.»
«I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, circulating library, consist, counties, county, establishment, extensive, lending library, Lent, regulation, regulations, The Establishment, well-chosen
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