"They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within."
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"A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are."
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"She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep."
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"The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet."
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"It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible."
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"The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown."
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"We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them"
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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
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"In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface."
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"There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole."
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"A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing."
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"I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface."
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"I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface"
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"If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth."
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"The last thing to collapse is the surface."
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"God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil."
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"Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces."
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"It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable."
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"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing."
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"Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it."
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