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«Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of ca»
«If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, distinctive, egotism, egotist, egotists, worthless
«Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers»
Author: George Meredith
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Culture,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
acute, attached, balanced, cream, cultivated, skim, skimming, The Cream
«He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
acute, flay, flayed, flays, sensation, sensitivity, social system, social systems, touch system, usage, usefulness
«Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
acute, generals, General will, Judges, killing, priests, secretly, The Verdict, triumph, verdicts
«If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, a good deal, egotism, explanation, Freud, good deal, observer, Sex and
«IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man's soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acute, demonstration, demonstrations, Dr, eminent, investigator, investigators, observer, organ, persuaded, pith, professor, prolongation, spinal, spleen, suspend, tailed, theories
«I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat wh»
Author: Frank Sinatra
(Actor, Singer)
| About:
Sadness,
Singers and singing
| Keywords:
acute, articulate, contradictions, depressive, elation, Karat, lyric, lyrics, manic, singers
«Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
acute, existent, Judges, nevertheless, The Witches, witchery, witches