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Letter "I" » islands
«The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees...»
«There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.»
«The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
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Civil-Rights Leader,
Scholar,
Sociologist)
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Keywords:
Africa,
civil war,
color line,
islands,
Islands of the,
lighter,
lighters,
phase,
races,
race problem,
The Civil War,
The Problem of the,
twentieth,
twentieth century
«The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.»
Author: John Muir
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Keywords:
all at once,
continents,
dawn,
dew,
dried,
gloaming,
grand,
islands,
rising,
rolls,
round,
shower,
showered,
showering,
sunrise,
The Vapors,
vapor,
vapors
«Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
(
Essayist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bays,
discovers,
fishes,
horses,
images,
islands,
kingdoms,
labyrinth,
labyrinths,
lines,
peoples,
provinces,
Provinces of,
rooms,
ships,
shortly,
The Image,
traces
«Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
an island,
arrive,
boated,
boating,
boats,
continents,
island,
islands,
Islands of the,
pains,
regardless,
secluded,
send,
separated,
ships,
shores
«Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.»
«They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch 3 million dollar missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away -- Who are the real cowards?»
Author: Bill Hicks
(
Comedian)
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Keywords:
blow,
Blown Away,
cowards,
dollar,
floated,
floating,
get at,
giant,
iron,
islands,
Islands of the,
launch,
launches,
launching,
miles,
million,
missile,
missiles
«We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?''»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
afflict,
all the way,
amusing,
annex,
annexation,
annexed,
annexes,
annexing,
array,
arraying,
arrest,
beneficent,
benighted,
bunch,
cash,
hottest,
introduce,
islander,
Islanders,
islands,
lamp,
municipal,
novelty,
pickpocket,
pickpockets,
primitive,
robbers,
sleepy,
splendor,
street corner,
thieves