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«The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases»
Author: Edward Jenner
(Surgeon)
| About:
Disease,
Journey,
Travel
| Keywords:
deviation, originally, prolific
«The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.»
Author: George Mikes
| Keywords:
biological, bore, British, British and, eminent, experiments, originally, quite a, scientists, spoiling, The Eternal
«The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| About:
Diversity,
Earth
| Keywords:
accountable, astonishing, bolt, bolt of lightning, cell, cooled, derived, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, originally, probability
«The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.»
«Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Jobs,
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
commonplace, freshness, originally, polish
«Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of light.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
chosen people, dogged, nickname, Nicknames, opponent, originally, Philistine, The Chosen, unenlightened
«The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
allot, allots, cemetery, colony, earliest, founders, invariably, necessities, originally, project, site, sites, the colonies, The Founders, The Virgin, Utopia, Virgin
«The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.»
«SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admonish, admonished, admonishing, jester, Jesters, mace, ministerial, office staff, originally, proponent, proponents, scepter, scepters, veto, vetoed
«The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Flag of, highwayman, kingly, originally, perpetuated, pirate, pirates, procured
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