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«The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.»
«The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span»
«Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.»
Author: Richard Crashaw (Poet) | Keywords: shut in, span
«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
«Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?»
«Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? / Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? / With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? / Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.»
«The length of our days is seventy years - or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away»
Author: Bible | Keywords: seventy, span
«The world 's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | Keywords: span
«When God at first made man, / Having a glass of blessings standing by, / Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: / Let the world's riches, which dispers?d lie, / Contract into a span.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: contract, span
«The gods do not deduct from man's alloted span the hours spent fishing»

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