#receding

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. ↗

— George Oppen

#each #mathematical #preceding #pure #rule

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#day #during #i #preceding #stay

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#because #beyond #each #ever #further

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. ↗

— Edwin Powell Hubble

#history #horizons #receding #the history of

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#every #period #preceding #profane #religious

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ↗

— William Gibson

#city #clusters #complexity #computer #constellations

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. ↗

— Andre Gide

#each #joy #line #loyalty #makes

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. ↗

— George Ripley

#benefit #century #crowning #discover #glory

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#both #canada #domestic #half #immediately

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

#expanding #ignorance #knowledge #mirage #our