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«Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.»
«Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been made by the application of suggestive metaphors»
Author: Jonathan Miller
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
application, contribution, discovering, impressive, intelligibility, IS IS, suggestive, suggestive of
«The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.»
Author: Leon Edel
| Keywords:
biography, discovering, happenings, irrelevant, link, overlap, overlapping, shapeless, The Link
«The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.»
«The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| About:
Ignorance,
Illusion,
Obstacles
| Keywords:
continents, discovering, obstacle, oceans
«The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it,»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| Keywords:
devotion, discovering, immediately, machine, scripture, spinning wheel, spins, The wheel, wheel
«Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.»
Author: Bible
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discovering
«Naturally, man has to seek all means of discovering the meaning of Life, for without knowing it, he is lost; he wanders from birth to birth, receiving knock after knock and is seldom the better for all the experience.»
«Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Mathematics,
Pleasure,
Truth
| Keywords:
discovering, seeking