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«It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it.»
«Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.»
Author: Ernest Holmes
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
back, Back to, mirror, mirrored, reflect, The Thinker, thinker, thinks, think back
«In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.»
Author: Ernst Fischer
(Chemist, Educator)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
decay, decaying, reflect, social change, social changes, social function, truthful
«It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
communicate, detestable, extent, gauge, gauged, gauging, grievance, grievances, permits, reflect, smash, smashed, smashing, The Weight, unbearable
«No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.»
«Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
artificial, comment, commented, Commenting, Force It, reflect, touched
«I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
justice, My Country, reflect, tremble
«Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born.»
«I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Almighty, attribute, contest, interference, My Country, probable, reflect, supernatural, supernatural being, the Almighty, tremble
«I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
administration, consolation, reflect, shed, The Sword
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