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Letter "L" » law of gravity
«Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.»
Author: Edward Weston
| Keywords:
composition, compositions, consulting, gravity, law of gravity, photograph, Rules of, The Rules
«It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.»
«It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Globalization
| Keywords:
arguing, globalization, gravity, law of gravity
«The fatal law of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.»
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
| Keywords:
law of gravity
«What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Freedom
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and how, brute, course of action, desert, dwells, embark, embarked, embarking, embarks, embark on, gravity, law of gravity, liberate, quarries, quarry, setting, set free, significance, stone, The Quarry, thirst, trace, tracing, unfeeling
«HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancestry, disesteem, disesteemed, electrician, electricians, executions, first instance, hangman, hereditary, instance, law of gravity, officer, ordered, questioning
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