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«Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are ''prefabricated'' in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.»
«Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.»
Author: Jim Bishop
(Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Grief
| Keywords:
casual, fade, finite, unexpected
«Between the finite and the infiniteThe missing link of Love has left a void.Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will joinIn one continued chain of endless life.»
«Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.»
«Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
beyond question, critical, critical point, diminishes, finite, Finite number, numbers, the system
«Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
debate, discussing, eighteen, finite, Finite number, infinite number, nonsense, pin, theologian, theologians, The Standard
«All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of wate»
Author: Theodore Roethke
(Poet)
| Keywords:
basswood, bright blue, finite, freshly, frozen, infinitude, infinitudes, light upon, odor, odors, pines, Shine On, singular, slope, slopes
«Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.»
«Encore implies that life is not a continuous process, that there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. For me, there are a lot of exciting things in front of me at Microsoft, things that we want to see if we can make ha»
«Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
finite, reducing, The Process
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