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«Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hacker»
Author: Kevin Kwaku
| About:
Information
| Keywords:
Accessing, acronym, gratifying, hacker, Hackers, human intelligence, interactive, Manipulating, network, organizing, practically, rebellious, retrieve, Retrieving, superhighway, superhighways, transfer, transferred, transferring, unleash, unleashed, unleashes, Unleashing
«In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
gratifying, produced, sandwich, sandwiches, Sandwich Is, the matter, wondrous
«It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Guilt
| Keywords:
depressing, gratifying, repent
«MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
An Ancient, art museums, attest, attested, attesting, attests, Brune, come in handy, distil, distinguish, Egyptian, engaged, exhibit, flock, formerly, gratifying, grind, levity, modern medicine, money supply, mummies, mummy, physic, pigment, pigments, plunder, respecting, respect for the dead, rhyme, shrunken, sinner, supplying, The Limit, The Mummy, tomb
«PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appropriate, audible, clamor, clamoring, demons, disturbed, echoes, escaped, finance, financed, finances, financing, gratifying, hall, lecture, literally, pandemonium, reformer, responses
«It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Economics,
Education
| Keywords:
educational, educational institution, focus on, gratifying, participating
«Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.»
«The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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at one time, day by day, Downing, flute, flutes, gratifying, gymnastic, idling, neglecting, occupied, occurs, one time, practicing, reducing
«That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
curried, curries, curry, esteemed, fawn, fawning, fawns, gratifying, indulges, presentiment, statesman