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Letter "E" » entertains
«I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
conflicting, directly, entertain, entertains, felt, intelligence, number, points, points of view, reflected, simultaneously, topic, view
«Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.»
«Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?»
Author: Brigham Young
(President)
| Keywords:
entertain, entertains, golden, listen, silence, think of
«Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.»
«Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.»
«It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Individuality,
Mind,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
able, accepting, educated, educates, entertain, entertains, mark, The Mark, The Mark of
«HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
entertains, hostility, overpopulation, passive, peculiarly, respectively
«True, comics are a popular art, and yes, I believe their primary obligation is to entertain, but comics can go beyond that, and when they do, they move from silliness to significance.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
comics, entertain, entertains, More popular than, move, obligation, popular, popular with, primaries, primary, significance, silliness, yes
«Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.»
«Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
artificial, cities, entertaining, entertains, growth, talkative
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