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«In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing»
Author: Apollonius Tyanaeus
| Keywords:
adhered, adheres, adhering, cities, fixed, India, inhabiting, mortals, possessed, possessing
«Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
fixed, infinitely, interpretation, involves, varied
«Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
details, fixed, flash, illuminated, photographs, significant
«Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it.»
«Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.»
«Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still»
«He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.»
«Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| Keywords:
fixed, nutrition, peculiar, propagate, propagated, propagates, propagating, rot, spot
«If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
counsel, diligence, fixed, performed, perseverance, skill
«I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Loneliness
| Keywords:
breaking off, breaking point, break off, fixed, fixed point, Gazer, gloomiest, gloomy, point of view, solitary, The Wild, wanderer, wanderers
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