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«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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«The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.»
Author: William H. McNeill
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History of the, Human behavior, impressive, Islam, offers, surprising
«Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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Photography
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communications, execution, interpretation, medium, offers, perception, photography, variety
«The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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familiarity, fills, offers, pseudo, risking, strangeness, The Thrills, tourist, two weeks, weeks
«The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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axe, dedication, foe, forbearance, irrespective, lays, offers, of age, self help, self taught, shade, status, The Dog, tolerance, tree trunk, trunk, trunks
«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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actual, amuses, amusing, awaken, density, equivalent, fiction, fiction writer, grasp, guise, offers, Real Genius, something else, The Works, unable, writers
«The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.»
«That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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anxious, borne, famous, famous people, offers, outer, photography, presumption, presumptions, revelation, Revelation of
«The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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encounters, hand, loneliest, lonely, offers, on one hand, quickly, The Lonely, The Lonely One
«Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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maker, offers
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