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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin
Three
Those
Immovable
Classes
Divided
Movable
Move
Mankind
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
Annie Besant
History
Man
Natural
Impossible
Hero
Solar
Moon
Myth
Inevitable
Year
Positions
Changing
Relative
Way
Indeed
Sun
Easter
Dates
Point
Anniversary
Calculated
Calculating
Historical
Very
Festival
Fixing
Movable
The History Of
Event
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.
Isaac Newton
Nature
Space
Own
Our
Relative
Dimension
Immovable
Some
Determine
Similar
Absolute
Remains
Taken
Without
Always
Movable
Regard
Anything
Senses
Spaces
Which
Bodies
Measure
External
Position
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
Paul Theroux
Me
Type
Magical
Seem
Seemed
Were
Texts
Movable
Certainly
Who
Manuscripts
Illuminating
Copying
Monks
I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!
Jillian Hervey
Think
Khan
Everything
Fabrics
Classic
About
Take
She
Make
Always
How
Very
Movable
Them
Then
Used
Suede
Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
Jacob Weisberg
Words
Old
Dust
Type
Books
Pressed
Drawn
Out
House
Call
Historical
Jackets
Movable
Old Books
Boards
Them
Page
Moment
Filled
Raised
I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.
Katherine Parkinson
Myself
You
Those
Bad
Wireless
Computers
Call
Am
Still
Um
Get
Going
Movable
Them
Laptops
Radio