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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville
Life
Man
Strange
Joke
Universe
Vast
Takes
Practical
Call
Occasions
Affair
Mixed
Queer
His
Times
Certain
Whole
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin
Positive
Ignorance
Injustice
Goals
Collective
Men
Poverty
Revolution
Fighting
Live
Evils
Only
Variety
Vast
Individual
Seldom
Times
Cured
Reform
May
Predictable
Them
Incompatible
Slavery
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'
David Suzuki
Future
Creative
Memory
Creativity
Made
Gave
Those
Characteristics
Something
Invented
Vast
Had
Advantage
Idea
Were
Brain
Very
Curiosity
Curious
Did
Human
Storage
Human Brain
Us
Special
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams
Nature
Me
Sunrise
Space
Valley
Vast
Glitter
Edifice
Always
Wonder
Green
Stone
Yosemite
Golden
Having realised that in cooking there was a vast field of study and development, I said to myself, 'Although I had not originally intended to enter this profession, since I am in it, I will work in such a fashion that I will rise above the ordinary, and I will do my best to raise again the prestige of the chef de cuisine.'
Auguste Escoffier
Work
Best
Myself
Fashion
Cooking
Will
Rise Above
Field
Enter
Prestige
Rise
Above
Having
Vast
Had
Study
Development
Since
Although
Chef
Said
Am
Cuisine
Intended
Ordinary
Realised
Again
Profession
Originally
Raise
The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
Benigno Aquino III
World
Philippines
Extraction
Resources
Minerals
Mining
Responsible
More
Vast
Through
Generate
Untapped
Revenues
Still
Intend
Gold
Nickel
Largest
Copper
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal
Sail
Sphere
Drifting
Uncertainty
Vast
Driven
Within
End
Ever
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence
Money
Madness
Collective
Our
Vast
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
Fidel Castro
Natural
World
Become
Energy
Extraordinary
Resources
Given
Vast
Developments
Venezuela
Educational
Cultural
Model
Revolutionary
Social
Natural Resources
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
Education
Worth
Reading
Distinguish
Unable
Worth Reading
Able
Vast
Read
Produced
Population
The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Me
Reflection
Gave
Sun
Religions
Vast
Well
Hindu
Impression
Order
Which
Grasp
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.
Robert Schumann
God
Best
Nature
Joy
Tears
Speechless
Our
Alike
Gifts
Given
Vast
Weeping
Almighty
Name
Like
Ecstasy
She
Sorrow
Dry
How
Reverence
Pray
Handkerchief
Quiet
Hearts
May
Which
Eternal
Us
Turns
Teaches
Fills
Resignation
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo
Great
Book
Architecture
Thought
Every
Great Ideas
Religious
Recorded
Only
Vast
Ideas
Human
Race
Page
Human Race
Human Thought
Symbol
Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Battle
Men
Long
Chasing
Poverty
Edge
White
Reconstruction
Eating
Clay
Vast
Had
Bewildered
Sheer
Been
Up
Labor
Labor Movement
Hanging
Subsistence
Movement
Manhood
Land
Muddled
Ignorant
Who
Fought
Now
Slaves
For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
Al Purdy
Me
Man
Bird
Beast
Alive
Vividly
Triumph
Marvel
Vast
Perfectly
Most
Supreme
Flowers
I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
Alan Alda
Morning
Me
Same Thing
Think
Paper
Telling
Would
Something
Vast
Vast Majority
Journalists
Like
Know
Majority
Read
Same
Want
Happened
Actually
Thing
All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.
Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Good
Me
People
Soil
Country
Grass
Strikes
Would
Would-Be
Vast
Over
Cattle
Were
Fertile
Very
Improved
Handsome
Land
Inhabited
Reasonable
Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Law
Rare
Men
Relates
Lawsuits
Vast
Vast Majority
Facts
Catastrophe
Clear
Catastrophic
Countless
Most
Majority
Judges
Discretion
Often
Controversy
Experiences
Even
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
Boris Johnson
Lib
Vast
Void
Empty
Within
Surrounded
Just
Vacuum
Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
Charles E. Wilson
Future
You
Wealth
Before
Benefit
Mineral
Further
Magnificent
Vast
Development
Still
Land
Mankind
Your
Awaiting
Agricultural
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
David Brainerd
Daily
Spiritual
Me
World
Space
Long
Empty Space
Nothing
Earnestly
Though
Possibly
More
More And More
Spiritual Things
Vast
Like
Obtain
Comfort
Empty
Least
Huge
Die
Whence
Which
Derived
Whole
Even
Appears
Satisfactory
Things
Desirable
Desire
Vacuum
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
David Eagleman
Life
Science
Try
Mysteries
Approach
Spent
Vast
Adult
Adult Life
Most
Around
Understand
Scientist
Essentially
Successful
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
Frank Waters
Vast
Almost
Like
Tides
Sage
Oceans
Desert
Texas is as odd as it is vast.
Henry Rollins
Vast
Odd
Texas
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard
Future
Soul
Fear
Word
Nothing
Sum
Everything
Would
One Word
Boring
About
Vast
Exciting
New
Up
Going
Just
Happen
Happened
Suburb
Again
Conforming
Interesting
Ever
America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
James A. Michener
Stupid
Nation
Cowardly
Would
Hopes
Only
Vast
Deny
America
Refuse
Acknowledge
Them
Flaws
Many
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