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«No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.»
«There are people we wonder about but don't make attempts to contact. Perhaps we're afraid of empty conversations with someone or perhaps we're curious about someone whose life we watched for awhile from afar. Sometimes it's just been too long and sometimes we can't even articulate the need to know whatever happened to them. Where are they? Did they make it? Are they happy? Are they passionate about something in their lives? Are they anything like the people we once knew?»
«Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.»
Author: Eric Gill
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Science
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analytical, attempts, deadliness, descriptive, informative, purely
«It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.»
Author: Malcolm Cowley
(Critic, Editor, Journalist, Novelist, Poet)
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attempts, Jackson, Jackson Pollock, pollock, Sistine Chapel
«Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.»
«I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.»
Author: Robert Graves
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abroad, attempts, bend, classics, grammar, grammars, honest woman, horror, Rules of, sordid, The Classics, the English, The Rules
«Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.»
«Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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archaeologist, archaeologists, attempts, co-ordinate, co, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, First hand, illustrate, illustrated, lecture, museum, object lesson, ordinate, rigged, sickening, systematize, systematized, theories, unsound
«Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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attempts, Be Free, liberate, subject to, wholly
«The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.»
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