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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
- The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or… — John Muir
- Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid… — Jerry Saltz
- From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels. — Walter de La Mare