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«The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
adherence, feature, first principles, happily, indict, indicted, indicting, proclamation, recipients, repetition, un-American
«The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.»
Author: William Mathews
| Keywords:
collecting, discouraging, feature, feeds, gratified, insatiable, mania
«The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Heart
| Keywords:
feature, functioning, The Chief
«The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.»
Author: Jimmy Breslin
| About:
Gifts,
Politicians
| Keywords:
feature, gifted, gymnasium, named after
«The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, date, date rape, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, elite, feature, Liberals, loudly, membership, promote, rape, sanctimoniousness, Selecting, terrific, testifies, testify, testifying
«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Revolution,
Science
| Keywords:
arrogance, centrality, convictions, cosmos, dethronement, feature, include, pedestal, pedestals, previous, revolutions, scientific
«Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Persecution
| Keywords:
by law, established, established religion, feature, marked, original, persecution, persecutions, religions, strongly
«Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature . . .»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
feature, get away, physical thing, physical world, toughest, transmits