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Letter "R" » rowing
«Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?»
Author: Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
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Painter)
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Keywords:
against,
effort,
games,
Game On,
gaming,
get in the game,
going,
look,
look at,
My Game,
natural,
naturals,
Other games,
playing,
riding,
Riding In,
river,
River The,
River Went,
rowed,
rowing,
see,
stop,
take,
take a look,
There is no,
where
«...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...»
Author: Jack Kerouac
(
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
beat down,
beat generation,
boatman,
boatmen,
civilizations,
galley,
low-down,
lowdown,
pottery,
rowing,
servants,
spinning,
The Beat
«Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.»
«And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.»
«Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back»
«When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
ceremony,
compels,
demon,
magical,
moves,
rowed,
rowing,
rows,
ship,
The Demon
«Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore»