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«The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
genius, incompleteness, preferring, prefers, saying, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, silence, the true, usually
«The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.»
«The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.»
«The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.»
Author: Ludwig Feuerbach
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appearance, copy, fancy, prefers, profane, profaning, signified, These Days
«The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Nobility
| Keywords:
bourgeois, consuming, convenience, conveniences, deathly, prefers, temperature, temperatures
«The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why He made so many of them.»
«The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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abandoned, abandonment, forgiven, intact, painful, prefers, proud, reproach, reproached, reproaches, reproaching, self-reproach
«The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
Iraq, Iraq and, Iraq In, obligations, prefers, the United States, United States, voluntarily
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