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Letter "E" » exercising
«The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.»
Author: Henry Steele Commager
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Censorship
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censorship, defeats, discretion, exercising
«The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.»
Author: Kate Millett
(Artist, Author)
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confined, cultural, exercising, functions, providing, reproduction, reproductions, sexual reproduction, The Animal
«Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.»
«We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.»
Author: Peter McWilliams
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blushing, choosing, consciously, endowment, endowments, exercising, option
«What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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demanding, discrimination, exercising, problem solving, solving
«While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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amusement, apart, deeper, exercising, Great Spirit, harmony, in full, kept, Learning to, mockery, solemn, thus, wit
«The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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exercising, half-hour, propitious, thronged, thronging, waking
«The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Art,
Politics
| Keywords:
exercising, following, governing
«Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
equaled, exercising, impotence, incurable, incurables, insatiable, lust
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