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Quote by Watkin Tench
To an active and contemplative mind, a new country is an inexhaustible source of curiosity and speculation.
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The quote says that a person who both takes part in life and thinks deeply will find a new country endlessly interesting. Its unfamiliar places and ways of life invite continual questions, observations, and ideas. “Inexhaustible” emphasizes that curiosity does not run out; the country keeps offering something to notice and consider.
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- Project Gutenberg, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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“Это был наш континент, на котором мы жили, и все, что было на нашем континенте, было нашим достоянием.”
“Thought tends to take form in action.”
“I asked to be permitted to fly with a pilot who had an old broken down seaplane anchored in the river in front of the hotel.”
“To try to think for yourself.”
Read quote“Şi forţa gândului este formă.”
“Their esse is percipi; nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.”
“لك عقل واحد، وهمة واحدة، فلا تضيعهما في محاولة الانتقام من أعدائك.”
“إن في هذه التربة دفئاً خاصاً، وفيها حرارة ضوء تعطيها إشعاعاً وسحنة سمراء محروقة، من خلالها يمكن أن تبصر بعض سمات حضارتنا القديمة، وبالأخص الحضارة السومرية فهي الأقرب إلى طبيعة تكوين هذه التربة.”
“Nel quale, senza esagerazione, credo vi fusssero 500 navi grosse, quali V.S. avrà visto in Genova.”
“ولدت تأثيريًا ولكن تأثيريًا مصريًا تحس بشمس الوادي في رسومي.”
Lessons on Four Wheels
After losing his mapmaking contract, Elian rebuilds a handcart and fills it with puzzles, measuring tools, and books. The first lessons fail—until the people he hopes to teach show him how learning can begin with ordinary things.
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