Tracing Quotes

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. — Italo Calvino
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
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
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
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
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
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Jean-Andre Deluc
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
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. — Annie Dillard
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
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
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
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
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
By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that. — John Tenniel
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
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
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
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. — Henry Fuseli
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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