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  • Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

  • Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

    Wall   Rain   Lakes  
    Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.85, Univ of California Press
  • Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

    Dog   Weather   Justice  
  • Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

  • I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?" A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the moat when they were startled by a sudden drawn-out cry. They looked up in time see a scarlet-and-gold clad figure sail out of a first-story window, turn over once and then land with an enormus splash in the dark, rancid waters. They shrugged and went back to work.

    Dark   Land   Water  
  • It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.

    Wall   Thinking   Glasses  
    "Time's Arrow". Book by Martin Amis, www.avclub.com. September 1991.
  • The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa.

    Moats   Too Late   West  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.

    People   Car   Mountain  
    "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.
  • the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

    Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”
  • She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn't even crossed the moat yet.

    Breakup   Years   Castles  
    W. Kinsella, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser, Max Apple (2016). “Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature”, p.336, Tachyon Publications
  • The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

    Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.139, Take Root Media
  • In fact I've probably never seen such a wide moat.

    Moats   Facts   Wide  
  • You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

    Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.21, Random House
  • Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

    Moats   Buying   Muscles  
  • How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.

    Trying   Moats   Fanatics  
  • A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

    Wall   People   May  
  • Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

    Reality   Moats   Rift  
  • I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

    People   Moats   Way  
  • I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

    Girl   Baby   House  
  • Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer upon them; let a boat be kept there.

    Dark   Space   Water  
    Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions
  • Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.

  • I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

    Dragons   People   House  
  • If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

    Swim   Castles   Moats  
  • She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie.

    Horse   Zombie   Hug  
    Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey
  • In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

    Castles   Moats   Looks  
    Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons
  • You can have the most advanced and efflorescent of cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933... Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

    Wall   Lying   Germany  
    "Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics". Book by Charles Krauthammer, 2013).
  • An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation.

  • I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her. I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

    "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.
  • This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

    Kings   Wall   War  
    'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40
  • No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.

    Crazy   Feet   Moats  
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