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Tag Name "Movable" (11)

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A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
Angela Carter
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
Annie Besant
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The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.
Chanakya
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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
Gene Fowler
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God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.
Isaac Newton
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Histories of the world omitted China if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly forgot it and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.
Angela Carter
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There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
Benjamin Franklin
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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations there are 3 million inventions
Dean Kamen
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. Mencken
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The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.
Philip Zimbardo