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«There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.»
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
(Naturalist, Zoologist)
| Keywords:
classes, continued, original, progression, tendency, type, varieties
«Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.»
«A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
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Movies
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fiction, film, moods, progression, theme
«The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
effectiveness, geometric, geometric progression, increases, interruptions, progression
«There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
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accounts, amazingly, blew, drastically, every other, factor, fifteen, finely, institution, managed, mystique, pastime, pastimes, pedestal, pedestals, pro, progression, pros, pro football, small number, The Pros, varies, vis-a-vis
«I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.»
«Change is the watchword of progression»
«However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
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airtight, all four, ambiguous, authoritarianism, expand, inevitably, justified, progression, roles, sugar-coated, sugarcoated, unequal
«Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
geometric, geometric progression, inequalities, inequality, lessening, portions, progression, silently, taxation
«Without contraries is no progression.»
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