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«It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
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bourgeoisie, comparison, contemporary, features, obsessed, stupefaction, tribute
«Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.»
Author: Gerald Jampolsky
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Love
| Keywords:
comparison, comparisons, expansion, expansions, extension, measurement, natural state
«Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
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Laughter
| Keywords:
arising, comparison, conception, formerly, infirmity, sudden
«I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.»
Author: John Wooden
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aimless, basketball, circles, comparison, comparisons, in circles, savior, Small circle, wins
«It's cool to be compared to her, but honestly who gives a damn. [About the comparison to Liz Taylor]»
«Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.»
«I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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advantageous, blooded, brilliant, comparison, drunkards, fall into, habitual, proneness, warm-blooded
«I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class»
«In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, / Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, / Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? / Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: / According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.»
Author: Bible
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comparison, covenanted, day of the month, Governor of, Haggai, Haggai the prophet, In Your Eyes, residue, Shealtiel, The Prophet
«In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
bathe, Bhagavad Gita, comparison, Gita, modern philosophy, modern world, Philosophy of, puny