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Letter "R" » rippled
«Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.»
«When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?»
Author: Ralph Marston
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Keywords:
blowing,
candle,
doing nothing,
flicker,
flickering,
flickers,
limbs,
looking at,
park,
parked,
playing,
pond,
ponds,
ripple,
rippled,
ripples,
rippling,
sitting,
spent,
the pond,
The Sea,
The Wind,
watching,
waves
«It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
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About:
Courage,
History,
Injustice,
Inspiration,
Mankind
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Keywords:
Acts,
Against the man,
against time,
belief,
diverse,
forth,
Human history,
ideal,
improve,
injustice,
injustices,
numberless,
ripple,
rippled,
ripples,
rippling,
sends,
shaped,
stands,
strikes,
strike out,
tiniest
«Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.»
«We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(
Critic,
Editor,
Poet,
Translator)
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Keywords:
anesthetized,
chronological,
chronological sequence,
convenient,
dates,
here and there,
paste,
pasted,
ripple,
rippled,
ripples,
rippling,
sequence,
spiral,
spiraling,
spirals,
table,
The Sequence
«The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.»
Author: Horace
(
Poet)
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About:
Foolishness
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Keywords:
act upon,
carvings,
durable,
efface,
effaced,
effaces,
effacing,
righteous,
ripple,
rippled,
ripples,
rippling,
smallest,
whatsoever
«Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(
Spiritual leader,
Teacher)
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Keywords:
cause,
express,
hurt,
inside,
not only,
ripple,
rippled,
ripples,
rippling,
suppress,
suppresses,
suppressing,
surroundings,
The Express,
transform
«There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(
Critic,
Editor,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Beauty
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Keywords:
babies,
billed,
billing,
bills,
downy,
ducked,
ducking,
ducks,
gentle,
heads,
noises,
Order of,
ripple,
rippled,
ripples,
rippling,
soft,
toddle,
toddles,
toddling
«These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.»