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«Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks. all lovely and loose and jingly.»
Author: Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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Travel
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cook, department, department store, Department Stores, exaltation, gaggle, geese, jingly, larks, librarian, librarians, packs, scourge, scourged, scourges, scourging, stores, swarm, swarming, swarms, teenagers, The Cook, The Larks, The Librarian
«None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
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alchemy, exaltation, transmute, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
«Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society»
Author: John Ralston Saul
| About:
Humanity
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exaltation, humanism, integral, integral part
«Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity»
Author: Phillip Brooks
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Christianity
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condescension, divinity, divinity of Christ, exaltation, Jesus Christ
«To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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accuse, cowardly, defender, defenders, ennoblement, exaltation, gluttonous, kidney, kidneys, lascivious, lazy, mendacious, on the contrary, rhetoric, The Defenders
«No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
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conventional, exaltation, fleeting, renounce
«The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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delight, exaltation, excellence, surely, The sense, touchstone, touchstones
«If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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abolish, affection, aspects, atone, atones, constitution, discovering, divinely, drug, each day, exaltation, fellows, Five Days, glowing, heavenly, individuals, novel, paradise, significant, six, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, solved, swallow, undamaged, wake, wake up, wholly
«You shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires, by focusing your consciousness on the Lord's Lotus Feet. He is totally pervading the water and the land; He is the Lord of the World-forest. Behold Him in exaltation in each and every heart. Nanak gives this advice,»
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