#covered

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. ↗

— Earl Wilson

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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#beyond #books #conquer #discovered #farm

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#city #desk #had #i #still

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. ↗

— Don Young

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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy. ↗

— Steve Zahn

#covered #cut #everything #flower #garden

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

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