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- A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
- The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have…
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- Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power… — Margaret Atwood
- Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan
- In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there… — Henri Matisse
- Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power. — Deepak Chopra
- Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker
- A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble — Remy de Gourmont
- What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle… — Caspar David Friedrich
- Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely… — B.K.S. Iyengar
- Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can… — Norman Maclean
- Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.… — Murray Rothbard
- Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at… — Philip Yancey