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Marks
«The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.»
«The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.»
«The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
addiction, arrested, arrested development, Marks
«The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
achievements, actualities, admirable, American history, breaking off, break off, conspicuous, continuous, exertions, gap, grandly, increased, Marks, peoples, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, singularly, spur, The Admirable, The Gap
«The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.»
«To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility -- these are marks of maturity and graciousness.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
bear, criticism, criticisms, defeat, dignities, dignity, graciousness, honors, humility, Marks, maturity, poise, receive
«To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.»
«To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Change,
Imagination,
Science
| Keywords:
advance, angle, angles, angling, creative, imagination, Marks, possibilities, problems, questions, raise, regard, requires, science