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diverting
«Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.»
Author: Herbert Gold
| Keywords:
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«I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Children,
Play
| Keywords:
divert, diverting, diverts, now and then, pebble, prettier, sea shore, shell, shore, smoother, undiscovered
«I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
diverting, pebble, prettier, seashore, shell, smoother
«Happy that nation, fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
diverting, that nation
«Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
Age of Man, creative, Creative minds, divert, diverting, diverts, falls, habits, lazier, laziest, lazy, mind reading, pursuits, reading, reads, Too lazy, too little, uses
«Men whom neither merchandise nor selling diverts from the remembrance of Allah and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of poor-rate; they fear a day in which the hearts and eyes shall turn about. (The Light 24.37)»
Author: quran
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
Allah, divert, diverting, diverts, merchandise, remembrance, selling
«Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Relationships
| Keywords:
display, divert, diverted, diverting, diverts, offended, ostentation, scarcely, wastes
«Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.»