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«Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
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compared, courageous, defied, defies, politician, reformer, The Social
«It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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annihilating, baroque, contradicts, cupola, defies, denies, gable, gables, gigantic, high-pitched, lines, megalopolis, pinnacle, pinnacles, pitched, related, silhouette, silhouettes, Something Different, spire, spires, The City
«Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.»
Author: Sir John Simon
(Physician)
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acquires, bathrooms, defies, garland, geometrician, geometricians, intemperately, resembles, resourceful, squeezed, The Giant, The Tube, tubes
«When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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compromise, defied, defies, gauntlet, heroism, scorns, The Gauntlet, throws
«There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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bubbling, defies, from the heart, rigid, significance, spontaneously, The Philosopher, without expression
«In every concrete individual, there is a uniqueness that defies formulation. We can feel the touch of it and recognize its taste, so to speak, relishing or disliking, as the case may be, but we can give no ultimate account of it, and we have in the end simply to admire the Creator.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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concrete, defies, disliking, formulation, relishing, so to speak, The Touch, uniqueness
«Life defies our phrases, it is infinitely continuous and subtle and shaded, whilst our verbal terms are discrete, rude and few.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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continuous, defies, discrete, phrases, rude, shaded, verbal