Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
Samuel Johnson
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It must be visible or invisible, Invisible or visible or both: A seeing and unseeing in the eye.The weather and the giant of the weather, Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air: An abstraction blooded, as a man by thought.
Wallace Stevens
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The geometry of space changes when things in the universe change their relationships to one another.
Lee Smolin
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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded... on the principle of conspicuous waste.
Lewis Mumford
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I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
Jay Baruchel
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Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
Joel Salatin
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I think there's a good chance we'll dodge the bullet this time.
Ben Bernanke
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Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.
Karl Marx
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It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.
Calvin Seerveld
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I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
Jane Welsh Carlyle