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«Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
furnished with, furnishes, furnishing, materials, mind reading, ours, reading
«Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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Art,
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Singers and singing
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come out, express, gathered, in terms of, materials, notes, poets, purest, seers, singer, terms
«Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures»
«In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
manpower, materials, personal relation, Personal relations, quarters, three-quarter
«Make the workmanship surpass the materials.»
«Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work»
«Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.»
«Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he k»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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builds, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, enrich, fitted, materials, rude, smoothed, squared
«Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
builds, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, fitted, materials, smoothed, squared, unprofitable
«I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agony, award, awarded, awarding, least of all, materials, profit, sweat, The Agony and, work in
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