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«In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.»
«I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| Keywords:
cases, childhood, convinced, exceptional, extraordinary, formation, formations, gifts, in one case, one form
«There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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Popularity
| Keywords:
cases, considered, merit, popularity, proper
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
alas, all too, believes, bestowed, bestowing, cases, filled, forgets, perfection, select, Selecting, selects, sets, standard, The Standard, worships
«I have often been asked, ''Do not people bore you?'' I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
bore, calls, cases, curious, dislike, equally, exasperated, exasperates, exasperating, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, inopportune, newspaper, Reporters, shorten, shortening, shortens, steps, suit, suppose, talk down, The Reporter
«No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Logic
| Keywords:
appealing, cases, common mistake, fatuous, jurisdiction
«Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
American, American Woman, cases, darn, darned, hysterical, not for, pathological, psychoanalysis, silly, sock, socks
«Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there?s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Evolution,
Humor
| Keywords:
backbone, cases, cosmos, cycles, evolving, fiber, fibers, frustrates, frustrating, go along, intended, millions, mysterious, organic, trial, trial and error, tune
«It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
actual, breeder, cases, chosen, corruption, cowardice, elsewhere, energies, freeman, freemen, lose it, portion, terrors, The Fear, Thousands
«Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
abstract, cases, conceiving, conclusions, instinctive, perception, prompt, prompted, prompting
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