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«This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.»
Author: Frances E. Willard
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«The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line»
Author: Joanna Field
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Growth
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ascending, spiral, spiraling, spirals, straight line
«For Men, no circle is ever closed. We walk ever in spirals.»
«Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted oatmeal dish and silo with their awkward cantilevering, their jaundiced skin and the ingenious spiral ramp leading down past the abstractions which mirror the tortured maladjustments of our time.»
«The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
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«What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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ascending, expanding, graduating, gyre, gyres, intense, large scale, pushes, scale, significance, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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«The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals»
«Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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absurdity, descend, get around, jump, lowest, modern man, obviously, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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ascending, ascends, dissolution, evolution, followed, line, progress, retrogression, rhythms, rhythm and, spiral, spiraling, spirals, straight
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