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«Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.»
«If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.»
«The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing»
«The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.»
«By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
flower, gather, gather up, plucking, plucks
«He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
convincing, destroying, devotes, feathers, flying start, futile, hunt, Hunt for, plucking, pushing, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, species, strident, survival, The Birds, the hunt, The Wings, tool, To Fly, train, train of thought, young bird
«CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blackguard, blackguards, faulty, plucking
«It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
commandment, concerning, elementary, expressed, lightly, plucking, prohibition, thoughtlessly
«Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely»
«If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Adventure,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
aged, beard, depressed, faded, fatalistic, goat, no doubt, plucking, precipices, The Wild, trembling, wild goat
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