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«Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.»
«The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
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appeals, caricatured, caricatures, conservative, designate, designated, designates, inevitably, put into practice
«For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise-whatever appeals to you.»
«The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy»
Author: Louis Ferdinand Celine
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Heroism,
War
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appeals, enormously, heroism, The War, wealthy
«I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
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affectionate, appeals, business methods, contend, excitements, family business, in short, middle class, respectable, serenity, The Middle Class
«Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.»
«Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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«The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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administration, aims, appeals, bullets, characterized, commercial, dictates, diplomacy, humanitarian, idealistic, intercourse, legitimate, respond, sentiments, strategy, substituting, this policy
«It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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«As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Humanity,
Truth
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appeals, boa, boa constrictor, Challenges, constrictor, constrictors, crocodiles, dealing, misunderstood, sympathy, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles
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