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«If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
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arbitrary, arrest, educational, efficacious, helpful, imposition, impositions, Movements, rigorously, spontaneous, tasks, tends, tends to, The Complete, unfolding
«A far greater factor [than abolishing poverty] is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| About:
Consequences,
Judgement,
Poverty
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abolishing, arrest, deterrent, penalty, prompt, prompter, swift
«ARREST, v.t. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. --_The Unauthorized Version_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accused, arrest, detain, detained, formally, Six Days, unauthorized, unusualness
«Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
| About:
Effort
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arrest, guarding, relapse, relapses, Renaissance, the Renaissance
«Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.»
«An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.»
«After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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arrest, blank, blank verse, Chinese, Chinese Wall, erection, erections, Milton, retrogression, verse
«Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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arrest, arresting, arrests, attend to, baffle, baffles, baffling, experiences, fled, flees, grasp, instant, melted, notice, occurs
«Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Almost always, analysis, arrest, cut across, gas, get a look, headlong, introspective, rush, section, sections, seizing, spinning, spinning top, The Conclusion, turn up
«She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Appearance
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arrest, arresting, arrests, cardiac, cardiac arrest, described, skirt, skirted, sweater, sweaters, tight, wore, yak
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