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«Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by»
Author: Eric Johnston
| About:
Government
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«When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.»
Author: James Agee
(Critic, Writer)
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«Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.»
«And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, / And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.»
«He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.»
«There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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headlong, returns, shaves
«The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race»
«If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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disastrous, headlong, studies, stun, stunned, stunning
«Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Almost always, analysis, arrest, cut across, gas, get a look, headlong, introspective, rush, section, sections, seizing, spinning, spinning top, The Conclusion, turn up
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