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moonshine
«Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine»
Author: Ernest Rutherford
(Chemist)
| About:
Atoms,
Power
| Keywords:
atom, expects, moonshine, The Atom, transformation, transformations
«O ruddier than the cherry, / O sweeter than the berry, / O nymph more bright / Than moonshine night, / Like kidlings blithe and merry.»
«Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - like the effect of a fog or moonshine - gives to things exagg»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| About:
Action,
Planning,
War
| Keywords:
addition, data, fog, infrequently, in addition, lastly, moonshine, planned, plan of action, to a great extent, twilight, uncertainty
«We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
further, furthered, furthering, furthers, here, moonshine
«The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
butcheries, butchery, capital, capital punishment, damage, degrade, degraded, degrades, in truth, moonshine, state of nature, The Argument
«All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
appealing, conquering, impeccable, moonshine, syllogism, syllogisms, talk of
