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«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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«Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.»
Author: Ira Gershwin
(Lyricist)
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Elderly
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adds, whiten, whitened, whitens, With all due respect
«The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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«Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.»
Author: Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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adds
«Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
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«Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests»
«The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Nature,
Truth
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adds, arises, assembled, assembling, evident, grandeur, one way, The Search, wholly
«SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr. William D. Howells, who introduces a well-credentialed reader to as respectable and mannerly a company of spooks as one could wish to meet. To the terror that invests the chairman of a district school board, the Howells ghost adds something of the mystery enveloping a farmer from another township.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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adds, delude, deludes, deluding, dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, rage, strengthens, thoughtless
«People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
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abundance, achievements, adds, centered, detract, detracting, detracts, genuinely, good fortune, in terms of, mentality, recognition, scarcities, scarcity, successes, well-being
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