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«Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.»
Author: Herbert Marcuse
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abuses, applying, arsenal, arsenals, establishment, expressions, obscenity, The Establishment, verbal
«When, at the age of seven, he blew up the family truck by dropping a match down the gas tank, we should have known he'd grow up to make his living hurling verbal firebombs at presidents.»
«We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
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conceptions, concert, concerts, courteous, fascination, fascinations, in concert, meditation, somewhat, suspend, suspending, symbolic, symbols, verbal
«You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
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affect, repetition, repetitions, subconscious, subconscious mind, verbal
«These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Thought,
Words
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afterward, come in, express, formulation, rarely, verbal
«Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.»
«Life defies our phrases, it is infinitely continuous and subtle and shaded, whilst our verbal terms are discrete, rude and few.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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continuous, defies, discrete, phrases, rude, shaded, verbal
«Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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languages, spoken language, verbal
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