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«America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.»
Author: David Riesman
| About:
America and Americans,
Country,
Humor
| Keywords:
Chinese, concealment, humorous, inscrutable, ironical, legendary, matches
«One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor [but] nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.»
Author: Dr. Charles Brenton Huggins
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
apparently, ardor, inscrutable, personal identity, pits, wits, wooing
«This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.»
Author: Thomas Dekker
(Dramatist, Writer)
| About:
Magic,
World
| Keywords:
inscrutable, magical, sciences
«In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
disdainful, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, immensity, immutability, inscrutable, seaman, seamen, sea change, shores, slightly, surroundings, veiled
«To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labor, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
inscrutable, intricacies, intricacy, maze, mazes, pierced, The Maze
«The Supreme Lord God is Infinite and Divine; He is Inaccessible, Incomprehensible, Invisible and Inscrutable.»
«The Unseen and Inscrutable Lord is permeating and pervading everywhere. He cannot be obtained by any effort.»
«If you do not feel the call at the sight of human distress, disease or deviation from the right, how can you muster the determination and dedication necessary to serve the unseen, inscrutable, mysterious God? When you do not love man, your heart will not love God.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
call at, dedication, deviation, heart disease, inscrutable, muster, The Call
«We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
bricklaying, decline, exposition, Expositions, inscrutable, rhyme, scientific theory, The Building, workings
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