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«Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.»
«The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.»
Author: Art Buchwald
(Journalist)
| About:
Danger
| Keywords:
accidents, automobile, buffalo, buffaloed, in the United States
«Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.»
«Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse / always open, always full, always abundant / new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul / its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.»
Author: Eugene Delacroix
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«The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.»
Author: Neal Barnard, M.D.
| About:
America and Americans,
Death and dying,
Food
| Keywords:
accidents, automobile, beef, beefing, beeves, century, combined, contributed, deaths, disasters, industry, Natural Disasters, this century
«There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation ''alter'' nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
absorb, accidents, bomb, cards, card game, Game of cards, grandeur, nuclear, Nuclear bomb, nuclear energy, nuclear war, pick up, radiation, releases, shuffle, shuffled, shuffles, shuffling, spark, spilled, the Bomb, throwing
«The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.»
Author: John Updike
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
accidents, actualities, actuality, creative work, presentation, presentations, victim
«The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.»
«Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses...in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to dis-elect them.»
Author: Ralph Nader
(Activist, Lawyer)
| Keywords:
accidents, boondoggle, boondoggles, bungle, bungling, capitalize, companies, corporate, Dis, elect, in effect, losses, mismanagement, profits, profit and loss, socialism, socialize, socialized, socializing, tax system
«So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
accidents, concur, concurred, concurring, concurs, continuance, continuances, requisite, supply
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