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«One sweetly solemn thought, Comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, Than I ever have been before»
«Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.»
«Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, gate, kingdom, miles, nearer, The Kingdom, thief
«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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abstraction, aggravation, aggravations, alternative, artifice, artifices, bustle, bustles, bustling, cities, concentration, congestion, deliberate, ecstasy, entertainment, holidays, intensification, levels, level best, look to, monotony, nearer, overcoming, plunge, pollution, Popular entertainment, pressure, sense an, stress, to the point
«If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
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appearance, farther, kernel, kernels, likewise, nearer, shell
«I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science,
Superstition
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attractive, by year, edges, millennia, millennium, nearer, pseudo, siren, Sirens, sonorous, superstition, tempting, The Millennium, unreason
«No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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advance, equality, manners, millimeter, nearer, reform, reforming, revolution, softened, softening, softens
«Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.»
«Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.»
«It is the very error of the moon;She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,And drives men mad.»
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