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«Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other»
«It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.»
Author: James Weldon Johnson
(Diplomat, Poet)
| Keywords:
blues, characteristics, derives, distinctive
«There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.»
Author: Louis Aragon
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
black light, characteristics, companion, corollary, delusion, dispense, dispense with, flatter, imagines, landscape, signally, There exists
«The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
characteristics, hopeful, omniscient, philanthropy, pried, pry, prying, redress, redressed, redressing, righting, steadily, tireless
«Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.»
Author: Satchel Paige
| About:
Power,
Praise,
Virtue
| Keywords:
blame, characteristics, cheered, excellent, grieved, powers, thoroughly
«The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. He also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
awakens, characteristics, combatant, combatants, connect, countries, flame, knightly, Olympic, separate, sportive, unites
«The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
biological, characteristics, determines, DNA, Information Age, Social Security, Social Security number, such as
«It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent labor unions.»
«One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
characteristics, surprises
«Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
atoms, characteristics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, subtleties, The Mother, the self
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