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Letter "I" » imperfectly
«Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.»
«PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
edible, imperfectly, indigenous, Portugal, Portuguese, stuffed
«LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admirable, adult male, chiefly, contributing, imperfectly, infancy, in no way, lap, organs, plates, provision, repose, rudimentary, rural, substantial, support system, The Animal
«INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Feelings,
Nature
| Keywords:
comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, fill, genuinely, humility, imperfectly, magnificent, mysticism, religious, religious person, structure, This is a
«The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
imperfectly, nobly, subtly, The Finest
«Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall!»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
encounter, execrate, hideous, imperfectly, measureless, mosque, mosques, pagoda, venerate, venerated, wigwam
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