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• There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science, and history, and the arts…it is the deep foundation in rich knowledge and vocabulary depth that allows you to access more complex text.

  David Coleman

  Art, Reading, Nuts

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• He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Years, Waiting

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Mind

  1625 Essays, no.9 'Of Atheism'. See Berkeley 79:7.

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• J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

  Brian Wilson

  Spiritual, Meditation, Musical

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• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Air, Dry, Corn

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• Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

  Lord Byron

  World, Truth Is, Found

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• The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

  John Piper

  Mean, Past, Grace

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.100, Multnomah

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• My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

  Michael Tippett

  Giving, Imagination, Intellectual

  Michael Tippett, Covent Garden Gallery (1977). “A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett”, London : Schott

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• The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

  Martin Frost

  Country, Fall, Icy

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• The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Belief, Prove It

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.32

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• Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

  Anna Komnene

  Obscurity, Flow, Flood

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• I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

  Jason Isaacs

  University, Bits

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• The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Rolling, World

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• Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

  Jack London

  Law, Mandates

  Jack London (1904). “The Call of the Wild”

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• Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

  John Wesley

  Men, Light, Height

  1738 A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, 'Divine Love'.

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• So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Lasts, Firsts

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

  Sam Harris

  Elude Us, Understanding, Lifetime

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

  John Lindsay

  Travel, New York, Home

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• I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.

  Ashley Greene

  Moving, Thinking, Color

  Source: collider.com

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• To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

  William Friedkin

  Art, Giving, Cinema

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

  William Friedkin

  Art, Two, Giving

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!

  Brendan Fraser

  Cutting, Glasses, Giving

  "Inkheart - Brendan Fraser interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.

  David Byrne

  Missing, Information, Digital

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Interview with Michael Archer, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

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• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

  Sam Keen

  Moving, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

  James Bobin

  Ideas, Important, Watches

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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