Tracing Quotes
56 quotes by 52 authors
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
— John Stuart Mill
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That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening…
— John Ruskin
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The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
— Jonathan Swift
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Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they…
— Roderick Murchison
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I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
— Jean-Andre Deluc
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The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at…
— Herb Gray
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
— Annie Dillard
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There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent…
— Daniel Levin Becker
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf
— Annie Dillard
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By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the…
— Tom Standage
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to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found…
— Edmund Randolph
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What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal…
— C. Wright Mills
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By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
— John Tenniel
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of…
— Adam Zagajewski
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We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism…
— Os Guinness
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I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
— Margaret Atwood
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Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.
— Henry Fuseli
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Deep, dark unearthly black. I hadn't told anyone yet, but the color kept streaking across my mind at the oddest moments. When it did, my…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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