Arbeitsbedingungen Bei Quotes & Sayings

There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script began this transition between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago: signs that began as pictures came to represent meaningful units of sound. Because the basic unit was the word, thousands of distinct symbols were required. This is efficient in one way, inefficient in another. Chinese unifies an array of distinct spoken languages: people who cannot speak to one another can write to one another. It employs at least fifty thousand symbols, about six thousand commonly used and known to most literate Chinese. In swift diagrammatic strokes they encode multidimensional semantic relationships. One device is simple repetition: tree + tree + tree = forest; more abstractly, sun + moon = brightness and east + east = everywhere. The process of compounding creates surprises: grain + knife = profit; hand + eye = look. — James Gleick

Library: The Temple of the Wise! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer. — JR

I never believed that angels exist, until I met you. — M.F. Moonzajer

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. — Mario Puzo

That we're both right. One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it. Hadrian — Michael J. Sullivan

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates ... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him. — Jean-Baptiste Say

I put all my hope in a third day God.
But I live in a second-day world. — John Ortberg

What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance. — Jan Masaryk

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him. — Rabia Basri

But above all things was it a return to Nature - that formula which seems to suit so many and such diverse movements: they would draw and paint nothing but what they saw, they would try and imagine things as they really happened. — Oscar Wilde

There were a few faint echoes from the common room two floors below, and a brief flurry of noise and movement, but this served only to emphasize my own isolation. — Diana Gabaldon

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer