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Letter "F" » facility
«The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.»
«Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.»
Author: Sir Thomas Beecham
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
difficulty, ear, facility, leaves, magical, memory, penetrated, penetrates, The Ear
«Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain, so all comely facility traces back to long pondering; intuitions are the reward of ancient gropings»
Author: Stephen MacKenna
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
comely, facility, intuitions, pondering, pronounce, strain
«The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
central, facility, grandparent, grandparents, human society, implant, implanting, implants, The central
«It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.»
«We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Safety
| Keywords:
chameleon, chameleons, facility, partialities, partiality, wonted
«Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
attribute, facility, resistant, softer, T
«Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
companion, craggy, facility, rejects, thorny
«The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are / 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
facility, possessors, propose, statesman, The three
«Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| About:
Action,
Communication,
Movies
| Keywords:
animation, appreciation, conceive, devised, explicit, facility, quick, versatile
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