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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.


Dylan Thomas


#artist #only #position #upright

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.


Lewis Thomas


#anyway #argue #bees #best #calculate

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.


John Acton


#being #constitution #country #democracy #democratic

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.


George Phillips Bond


#astronomy #been #bodies #celestial #century

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#fired #like #merit #politics #position

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.


George M. Cohan


#buried #call #curtain #funny #hurried

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.


John Galsworthy


#fellows #found #impossible #only #opposition

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.


Alma Gluck


#compositions #finds #go #hundreds #quality

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.


Robert Hall


#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.


Lawrence Hargrave


#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course






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