"Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains,……" — Alan Huffman
"Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives."
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19 Quotes by Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman has 19 quotes on this site.
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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to…
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Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a…
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Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host…
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Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than…
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When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in…
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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the…
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Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many…
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In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about…
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Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for…
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Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets…
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Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
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Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building…
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More Adorned Quotes
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Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is…
— Paul of the Cross
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes…
— Plautus
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She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see…
— John M. Tobin, Jr.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
— John Milton
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In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially…
— Michael Fullan
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
— John Ray
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Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
— St. Jerome
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained…
— Ciaran Carson
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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though…
— Johann Arndt
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