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«Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.»
Author: Jackie Kennedy
| Keywords:
all along, grow together, grow up, guessed, legend, preferred, The Legend
«Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.»
«Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Authority,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
assurances, consoling, economy, Economy of, preferred
«John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.»
«Plausible impossibilities should be preferred to unconvincing possibilities»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
impossibilities, plausible, preferred, unconvincing
«Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
confirm, confirming, justify, justness, maxim, preferred, prettiness, refused, turn to
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
author, Book One, brushed, brushes, brushing, brush up, colored person, coloring book, colors, derives, deriving, describing, feels, landscape, paint, painting, preferred, reading, The Author, The Pleasure