“ He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a portable world,' if not of the world. ”
- Azar Nafisi- Copy
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“ Words give you a medium, if you will, and make your message part of the human thought process. Words are as portable as the human being who hears them. ”
- James J. Jordan Jr.- Copy
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“ PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession. His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. Worgum Slupsky. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans — the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Money is a person's personal energy reduced to portable form. It can go where he could not go; speak languages he could not speak; lift burdens he could not touch with his fingers; save lives with which he cannot deal directly. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
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