Quotations
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«This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.»
Author: Malcolm Miller
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
architecture, binding, sculpture, text, The Glass
«There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text»
Author: Patrick Buchanan
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
careful, complexity, exegesis, on the far side, sentiment, simplicity, text, The Far Side
«My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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decent, licentious, obscurities, obscurity, passages, text
«The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
aspects, closing, commands, copied, copier, cut through, Forever Free, Interior, jungle, occupied, submits, text
«Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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gloss, glosses, invisibly, prophetically, rays, text, The Book of Life, ultraviolet
«The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Life,
Preparation
| Keywords:
commentary, supply, text
«The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Vision
| Keywords:
Information Age, lik, microprocessor, software, text, The Vision