“ If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
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“ We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
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“ If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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“ Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was. ”
- W. Stanley Jevons- Copy
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“ The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out. ”
- Margaret Drabble- Copy
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“ Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. ”
- William Falconer- Copy
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“ Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet… we may rightly call a New World… a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us. ”
- Amerigo Vespucci- Copy
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“ If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Theirs is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano… ”
- Guy Murchie- Copy
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“ Time's cupped hands hold/No place so lenient, so calm as this. The moment after suffering, it is like/A sunlit clearing after densest wood. Bright by antithesis./One sits upon a stump to get one's bearing/And to admire such evidence of day. ”
- Jessica Powers- Copy
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“ To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. ”
- Ivars Peterson- Copy
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“ The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. ”
- Tobey Maguire- Copy
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