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«Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? / Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.»
«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
astonished, Before and After, duration, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, frightened, immensity, swallowed
«The media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do it only by an intensive study of the ways in which the media have swallowed it.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media,
Study
| Keywords:
intensive, recover, substituted, swallowed
«What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.»
«The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
approached, borders, greatly, Jonah, marvelous, nearer, swallowed, Swallowing, The Marvelous, The Story, whale, whales, whaling
