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«If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!»
«All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
cope, cope with, deny, monstrous, pronounce, pronouncing, welcome
«Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
better half, creatures, decreed, decreeing, flock, good and, mankind, miserable, mud, One half, persecutor, pile, piles, pile up, piling, pronounce, pronouncing, surface, surfaced, surfaces, surface of, The Pile, thrown
«Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
exposes, fellows, ingeniously, judgments, pronouncing, weaknesses
«He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan»
«DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dactyl, extinct, flourished, pachyderm, pachyderms, printed, pronounced, pronouncing, pterodactyl, terry
«Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.»
«I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled»
«Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name BZJXXLLWCP is pronounced Jackson.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Jackson, names, pronounced, pronouncing, Welsh
«For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
all right, nay, pronouncing
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