Tributaries Quotes

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the… — Willy Ley
Time is an enormous, long river, and Iâ€™m standing in it, just as youâ€™re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they… — Utah Phillips
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled… — Diana Gabaldon
How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes… — Dan Chaon
It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well… — Ian Mcewan
This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds… — Nirmala Srivastava
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side. — Clement of Alexandria
Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its… — Willy Ley
If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the… — Cavett Robert
You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming… — Bruce Sterling
In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of rime and naked… — John Wesley Powell

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