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«It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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«Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| About:
Jealousy,
Sin
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dreadfully, involuntary, jealousy, sins
«Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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any, emotion, involuntary, sincere, sincerer, sincerest
«Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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alienate, alienated, compelled, degenerate, degeneration, involuntary, supports, support system, the system
«Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
involuntary, irregular, overt, resolutions
«INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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imminence, involuntary, prevalence, remote
«PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abbey, amiable, archbishop, Archbishop of, archbishop of Canterbury, Canterbury, Church of England, involuntary, primate, Primates, Westminster, Westminster Abbey
«Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
Cause of action, involuntary, voluntary
«It was involuntary. They sank my boat.»
«Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.»
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