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Letter "W" » windows
«Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.»
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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About:
Books,
Literature
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Keywords:
carrier,
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dumb,
engines,
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erecting,
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history of science,
lighthouse,
lighthouses,
literature,
sea change,
speculation,
speculations,
standstill,
The Lighthouse,
The Sea,
windows
«A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.»
Author: Horace Mann
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About:
Books,
Houses
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Keywords:
books,
bring,
bring up,
buy,
children,
has a,
house,
No Man,
room,
rooming house,
surrounding,
windows
«A house without books is like room without windows»
«All the windows of my heart I open to the day.»
«Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.»
«Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.»
Author: Jim Morrison
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Poet,
Singer)
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About:
Senses,
Sex
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Keywords:
Blake,
considered,
developed,
fully,
intensely,
involves,
mystical,
mystical experience,
Out of body experience,
prison,
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The Body,
The Five,
windows
«Bill, I don't do Windows.»
«Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.»
Author: Lao Tzu
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
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cup,
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cutting out,
cutting room,
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Doors And Windows,
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non,
out to,
room,
therefore,
turn,
utilities,
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windows
«A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter.»