Quotes with surrounding

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  • Friedrich von Schlegel An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Caitlin Doughty For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Bill Buford Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Sean O'Casey Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Virginia Woolf Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brande Roderick The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Abraham Tucker The point of aim for our vigilance to hold in view is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, to call off the thoughts when running upon disagreeable objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances surrounding us.
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  • Alex Grey To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Bill Gates We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bruno Rossi In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
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  • Denis Diderot We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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