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Tributaries Quotes by Willy Ley
- 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…
- 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…
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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… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.… — Willy Ley
- Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries,… — Utah Phillips
- This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson
- I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in… — Diana Gabaldon
- How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color… — Dan Chaon
- It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward… — Ian Mcewan
- This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river… — 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… — Willy Ley
- If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and… — Cavett Robert