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long ago
«The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.»
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abjure, abjured, best of them, bitch, goddess, long ago, professor, professors, scholastic, The Professor
«There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
long ago, modes, physics, sensory, The Streets
«I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.»
«Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.»
«Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
demanding, devouring, incessantly, insatiably, long ago, nourished, streams, sucks, The Giant, uninhabited, wearies
«The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands»
«The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.»
Author: Louis Armstrong
| Keywords:
jazz, jazz musician, long ago, moonlight, musician, The Jazz, yard
