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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks…
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
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Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
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Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
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The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
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The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
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I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…
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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.
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To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of…
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.…
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Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries,…
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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in…
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I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in…
— Diana Gabaldon
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How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color…
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It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward…
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This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
— Clement of Alexandria
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Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an…
— Willy Ley
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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and…
— Cavett Robert
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