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«The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's, Pop's and Capt'n Dick's.»
Author: Bryan Miller
| About:
Cooking
| Keywords:
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«There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.»
«Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.»
Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
| Keywords:
reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, Something Stupid
«The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.»
Author: Tom Naylor
| Keywords:
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«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
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«We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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doctors, grave, infallible, pope, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, the pope
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