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«He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.»
Author: Aneurin Bevan
(Politician)
| Keywords:
by-product, crowded, devoid, devoid of, fecund, fundamentally, lucidity, on the contrary, pulsations, sterile
«A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant»
Author: Hazrat Inayat Khan
| About:
Personality
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absent, devoid, devoid of, fragrant, qualified
«A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.»
«And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Mankind,
Religion
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apt, bring about, compelled, competence, devoid, devoid of, disorders, experts, free state, novelties, slavishly, submit, subversion, subversions, whatsoever, whim
«A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle»
«It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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devoid, devoid of, inference, inferences, sense of smell, thrust
«America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Absolutely Free, clanking, control it, devoid, devoid of, Land of the Free, tight, wills
«For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity, / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense and motion?»
«He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Forgiveness,
Power
| Keywords:
devoid, devoid of, forgive, Power of Love, The Power, The Power Of Love
«History is testimony to the fact that kings, who did so ended up in ruins and misery. Such kings were always devoid of stability, peace and success. »
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