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“That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche”
Dennis Miller
“And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.”
Bible
“In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.”
John Archibald Wheeler
“The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.”
Hannah Arendt
“As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these”
“How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.”
William Blake
“I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.”
Henry David Thoreau