Direct Sensing Instrument

Famous quotes containing the words direct, sensing and/or instrument:

    “An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
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    “Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.”
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    “Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
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