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«I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| About:
Presidency
| Keywords:
exposition, Expositions, fairs, gate, receipts, The Conclusion, tourists
«Expositions are the timekeepers of progress»
«Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?»
Author: David Ogilvy
| Keywords:
couplet, couplets, exposition, Expositions, fourteen, iambic, Mozart, pentameter, pentameters, recapitulation, rhyming, rigid, sonata, sonatas, sonnet, Sonnets, strict
«Today I have just made a beginning with the exposition of Vedanta. Every Mantra in the Vedanta is pregnant with meaning. I shall take up every day one Mantra and explain its meaning in simple and easily intelligible terms.»
«We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
bricklaying, decline, exposition, Expositions, inscrutable, rhyme, scientific theory, The Building, workings
«I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
come upon, exposition, Expositions
«People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
exposition, Expositions, lean on, starving
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