“ I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. ”
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“ The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer. ”
- Edward R. Murrow- Copy
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“ Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The first sentence of every novel should be: ''Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.'' Meander if you want to get to town. ”
- Michael Ondaatje- Copy
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“ The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. ”
- George Berkeley- Copy
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“ And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain. ”
- John Keble- Copy
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“ And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. - King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. ”
- Ernest Thompson Seton- Copy
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“ Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles? ”
- Pablo Neruda- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ Travel is like a drug that permeates the mind with an indefinite but unusual tinge, stimulating and releasing, imparting a greater significance than they possess to the things that interest and amuse it. ”
- Osbert Sitwell- Copy
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“ The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
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“ The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ”
- Jim Bishop- Copy
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“ Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ”
- Thorstein Veblen- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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