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«A melody is not merely something you can hum»
«One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.»
Author: Anna Julia Cooper
(Teacher, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
Interest,
Passion,
Religion
| Keywords:
hum, human voice, humming, Hums, occasionally, rush, The Hum, voices
«?She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.?»
«One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
apparatus, attack, attacked, aware, emptiness, enormous, existential, hi-fi, hum, humming, Hums, importance, interruption, interruptions, in turn, marijuana, nothingness, pointless, seeks, The Hum, The War
«When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over»
«What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Economics,
Management,
Reward,
Work
| Keywords:
classic, economic theory, fuller, fullers, fullest, hum, humming, Hums, inadequate, management, stature, theory-based, theory of, The Hum
«But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon.»
«For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Research
| Keywords:
cosmos, drum, galaxies, galaxy, hum, Human history, humming, Hums, inhabit, insignificant, searched, the Galaxy, The Hum, tuck, tucked
«There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
break dancing, brotherhood, Brotherhood Of Man, Continent, denunciation, grandeur, hum, humming, in unison, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, roar, sway, sweeps, The Brotherhood, the continent, The Hum, uniformity, unison, wildfire
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