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- We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate… — Chang-Rae Lee
- To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson
- Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans… — Ibn Khaldun
- Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount
- The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If… — Elspeth Huxley
- The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets,… — Ben Brantley
- The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous… — James Bryant Conant
- There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems,… — Robert Bridges