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rapids
«He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most me»
«It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
admitted, characteristic, faculties, imitation, intuition, marked, pas, races, rapid, rapids, strongly
«Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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academies, Academy A, at present, conception, discoveries, Europe, experiment, furnished, hence, instruments, rapid, rapids, sorry, The academy
«The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.»
«Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Liberty
| Keywords:
plant, rapid, rapids, rapid growth, root, take root
«A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
admiration, get the jump, in a moment, jumps, jump on, jump out, jump up, lady, matrimony, rapid, rapids
«It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accrue, accrued, accrues, description, felicities, injury, instances, material body, motion, no ball, rapid, rapids, set in motion, slightly, successively