“ What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape. ”
- Louise Erdrich- Copy
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“ Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along. ”
- Francis Parkman- Copy
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“ The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books - they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused — in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery — by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press — their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ At last the Muses rose,... And scattered,... as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers To Arno's myrtle border. ”
- Mark Akenside- Copy
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“ Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to be dispersed because we've been ignorant of their value. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I passionately scrutinize this past, in order to reconstruct from its scattered bits the illusion of a future. ”
- Octave Mirbeau- Copy
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“ The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter. ”
- Charles de Lint- Copy
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“ No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars. ”
- Llewelyn Powys- Copy
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“ A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. ”
- James Boswell- Copy
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“ Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ The very next sentence says that it had information that weapons had been dispersed to units. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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“ By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. ”
- African proverb- Copy
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“ A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand. ”
- Francis Parkman- Copy
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“ An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. ”
- Kevin Kelly- Copy
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“ We don't have it yet. it's likely to be tomorrow when it's distributed to the Security Council. ”
- John Bolton- Copy
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