Single Definite Article

Famous quotes containing the words single, definite and/or article:

    The wood for a temple does not come from a single tree.
    Chinese proverb.

    In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality—the principle of order versus the split atom.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture—and very much to our credit.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)