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«The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him»
Author: Austin O'Malley
| About:
Crime,
Foolishness
| Keywords:
criminals, detect, detecting, detective, detects, imbecile, imbeciles, imprisoned
«The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Events,
Miracles
| Keywords:
absurdity, all ages, detect, detected, forged, instances, propensity, Prophecies, sufficiently, supernatural
«It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.»
«The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
consistency, desolation, detect, detecting, detects, homo, Homo sapiens, provides, sapiens, stranger, thread
«I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a part of hell will break loose - it'll be much harder to detect»
«Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Conscience,
Growth
| Keywords:
bud, budded, budding, circulation, detect, detects, registered, registering, registers, sap, saps, The Register
«Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
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«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bottom fish, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, detect, detects, fishing, lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, occasions, sandy, shallow, slides, stream, sublime, thin
«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others: in conversation we nat»
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