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«First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.»
«A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.»
Author: Fisher Ames
| Keywords:
conceals, desolation, eruption, fiery, materials, volcano, volcanoes
«Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.»
Author: Joseph Story
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accumulating, aggregate, aggregated, materials, reorganized, reorganizing, Selecting
«Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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Brains, combination, combinations, inventing, material, materials, The Less
«Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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became, film, inexpensive, materials
«Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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Imagination
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compulsions, crowd, dynamic, fabric, indirect, interests, materials, The Crowd
«All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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About us, Action The, celestial, crystal, crystals, crystal clear, Flint, flints, masses, materials, shapeless, the Crystal, transparent
«India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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birthplace, cradle, grandmother, great grandmother, India, legend, materials, most-valuable, treasured
«In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
accepted, at hand, govern, inevitable, materials, more or less, The Question, to advantage, turned, valid
«An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling»
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