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«The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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«Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.»
«Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.»
Author: George F. Will
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circumscribed, circumscribes, derives, moral excellence, pressure, recording, records, seriousness, severe, strenuous| Occasions:
Olympic
«The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin
(Educator)
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«Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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Painting
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derives, deriving, of their own, painter, paintings
«The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.»
«When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.»
«Understand that society is the source of whatever pleasure one derives and whatever wealth one achieves in life.»
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