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«The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg (Novelist) | Keywords: automatic, cafeteria, cafeterias, comforts, depriving, elevator, Elevators, escalator, escalators, merchant, populace, self-service, self interest, specious, volition
«One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.»
Author: Edward Young (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: Art of War, specious
«A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | Keywords: in practice, ruinous, specious
«The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli | About: Adulthood, Children | Keywords: adults, at bottom, distinction, egos, For some, purposes, specious
«Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: deified, deify, deifying, specious
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