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«When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other»
Author: Mitchell Ulmann | About: Stupidity | Keywords: explanation, recourse
«Everybody should practice simple and virtuous living . They should never seek recourse to manipulative tendencies.»
«Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.»
«Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: recourse, scarcely
«Who would desire to have for a friend a man who talks in this fashion? Who would choose him out from others to tell him of his affairs? Who would have recourse to him in affliction? And indeed to what use in life could one put him?»
«I believe that any man or woman who, for a period of say five years, has earned his or her living in some lawful and useful occupation, without any recourse to public assistance, should be allowed to vote and that no one else should be allowed to vot»
«He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.»
«To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.»
«If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: recourse
«The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev»