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«We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.»
Author: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
breathe, cultural, foul, ignored, intercourse, literacy, oxygen, social intercourse, thin, thin air
«War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| About:
War
| Keywords:
carrying, carrying out, continuation, intercourse
«What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
bitter, holds, intercourse, sexual, sexual intercourse
«We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
application, deduction, deductions, inference, inferences, intercourse
«What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
accounting, boyfriend, conventions, financial, intercourse, intimacy, invited, scrupulous, social intercourse, specifically
«We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
caprice, caprices, commenced, common interest, evening gown, gown, gowns, intercourse, pattern, self-will, self-willed, self interest, teacup, The Creatures, transaction, transactions, whim
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