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«Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.»
Author: Jackie Kennedy
| Keywords:
all along, grow together, grow up, guessed, legend, preferred, The Legend
«Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.»
«Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.»
«Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Authority,
Freedom,
Mankind
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assurances, consoling, economy, Economy of, preferred
«John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.»
«Plausible impossibilities should be preferred to unconvincing possibilities»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
impossibilities, plausible, preferred, unconvincing
«Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
confirm, confirming, justify, justness, maxim, preferred, prettiness, refused, turn to
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
author, Book One, brushed, brushes, brushing, brush up, colored person, coloring book, colors, derives, deriving, describing, feels, landscape, paint, painting, preferred, reading, The Author, The Pleasure
«Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules. »
«Nothing is to be preferred before justice.»
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