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towers
«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.»
Author: Marilyn vos Savant
(Journalist)
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
successfully, tightrope, towers, twin, Twin Towers
«Do you not see even stones yield to the power of time, lofty towers fall to decay, and the rocks molder away? Temples and statues of the gods go to ruin, nor can the gods themselves prolong their date or get reprieve from fate»
Author: Lucretius
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Gods Themselves, lofty, molder, moldered, prolong, reprieve, temples, The Gods Themselves, The Rocks, towers, to the power
«So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? / Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.»
Author: Bible
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Assyria, brook, built up, City of David, darts, fountains, gathered, kings of Assyria, repaired, shields, strengthened, towers, water tower
«Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.»
«Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
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«From what you would know and measure, you must take leave, at least for a time. Only after having left town, you see how high its towers rise above the houses .»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
houses, How High, take leave, towers, town, Town of
«I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
admitted, confess, considerably, imagined, innate, inventors, philosophical, syllogism, syllogisms, the inventor, towers