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A glance at the map will show the intelligent and ever courteous reader that the 'wandering Po'--I drop into poetry after Goldsmith--flows much nearer the foot of the Apennines than of the Alps in the course of its divagations, and seems purposely to bend away from the greater range of mountains.

—Science in Arcady

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If you plan your own NACA, they may want to be part of it. for more specific contacts around your particular case, blog Media & Tech: observations, supputations (... et divagations!) sur l'évolution des média, des technologies et de l'Internet. — Media & Tech
Digressions, divagations, tangents, etc ... the art of obfuscation. — StrategyPage.com
A glance at the map will show the intelligent and ever courteous reader that the 'wandering Po'--I drop into poetry after Goldsmith--flows much nearer the foot of the Apennines than of the Alps in the course of its divagations, and seems purposely to bend away from the greater range of mountains. — Science in Arcady
Nothing has done more harm to the clergy than the practice, too common among laymen, of regarding them, when in the pulpit, as a sort of chartered libertines, whose divagations are not to be taken seriously. — Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
Even if we turn out of our path sometimes, we don't like others to vacillate... conversions, divagations, are not sympathetic Quite true. — Sister Teresa