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«Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.»
Author: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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airplane, annihilate, assisting, china, government officials, inventions, misunderstanding, officials, outstanding, provincial, removed, suspicion, unify, unifying
«He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good.»
«What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It?s this in-between that I?m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one?which is really the realm of the artist.»
Author: Federico Fellini
(Film Director)
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frontier, in-between, intangible, intangibles, physical world, province, Provinces of, provincial, realm, tangible
«The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.»
«The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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