Famous quotes containing the words reduced, instruction and/or set:
“The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly. It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost gem-like perfectionthe highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Everything from airplanes to kitchen blendersand even chopstickscomes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“yes, set fire to frostbitten crops,
drag out forgotten fruit
to dance the flame-tango,
the smoke-gavotte,
to live after all....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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