"My hold on the past and the future……" — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much… — Francis Bacon
• The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
• Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east… — Philip Guedalla
• There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity… — Gene Wolfe
• Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as… — James Hutton
• The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star… — James Pollard Espy
• A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw… — William Stafford
• Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her… — Thomas Keneally
• It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on… — Richard M. Nixon
• We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus
• A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t… — S. J. Perelman
• What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in… — C. Wright Mills

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