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arcs

«Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.»
«Here was the drama of the flesh. an architectonic system of skeleton and muscle, a musical arrangement of ellipsoids and undulating arcs.»
«Nor is it out of character that Chicago's grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake. from waste thrown into Lake Michigan a 75-year-old dump.»
«Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.»
«All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.»
«I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle | About: Thought | Keywords: arc, arcs, Bonaparte
«If a ragnar?k would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art ? and I'd go back to trees..»
«The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.»
«Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.»