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«Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; a biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skillful hand to construct the skeleton»
Author: Robert Aris Willmott
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anecdote, comparative, comparative anatomy, construct, skillful
«For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
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«The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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comparative, disturb, escapes, harass, harassed, harasses
«Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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comparative, elderly, European, keenly, put down, rarity, sensibility, stays, stay put, sufferings