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«Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Advances, get rid of, rid, rid of, uncover, uncovering, uncovers
«Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
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abruptly, ashes, ember, embers, glowing, poker, pokers, recollection, red hot, smoldering, stirs, The Ashes, uncovering, uncovers
«I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.»
«A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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hitherto, immoral, novel, segment, segments, the novel, uncover, uncovering, uncovers
«And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; / So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.»
Author: Bible
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«Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.»
«Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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falsehood, uncover, uncovering, uncovers
«Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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bosom, chosen, civil, company, Company of, countries, library, out in, picked, smallest, Strangers, the smallest, The Strangers, transparent, uncover, uncovering, uncovers, wisest, wittiest
«The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.»
«What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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accidentally, another planet, chance upon, glimpse, lighting, light touch, motoring, scenes, sense of touch, tip, toe, touches, uncovered, uncovering, uncovers, unrecorded, voyager, voyagers
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