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Topography Quotes

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Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out
R. A. Lafferty

Authors on Topography Quotes: Michael Polanyi Frank Lloyd Wright Alexander Kotov Frederick H. Evans Alan Moore Jerry Saltz R. A. Lafferty John Edgar Wideman Rick Atkinson John Betjeman Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Elizabeth Bishop
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We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
Michael Polanyi

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Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.
John Betjeman

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Science is the topography of ignorance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.
Alexander Kotov

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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
Michael Polanyi

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Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.
Alan Moore

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Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.
Frederick H. Evans

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In battle, topography is fate.
Rick Atkinson

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Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.
Elizabeth Bishop

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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
Jerry Saltz

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I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English topography - in his work particularly - and I realized there was no compulsion to use those ugly dot-dot curlicues all over the place to designate dialogue. I began to look around, and found writers who could make transitions quite clear by the language itself. I'm a bit of a maverick now. I'm always trying to push the medium.
John Edgar Wideman