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«Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate»
«If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
hardly, rigidly, sticks
«In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
aggression, characteristic, conception, contingent, contingent on, criteria, identity, intensely, locate, located, locates, locating, masculinity, norm, norms, notion, phallic, phallus, possessor, possessors, recognized, rigidly, sexuality
«We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Doubt
| Keywords:
areas, defined, demand, doubt, rigidly, uncertainties, uncertainty
«Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
accurate, fallacies, fallacy, merciless, rigidly
«There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
controlled, dissent, police, police state, responsive, restructure, restructuring, rigidly, suppressed
«Things which restrict the common are to be interpreted rigidly»
Author: Latin Proverb
| Keywords:
interpreted, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts, rigidly
«Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.»
«For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
channels, construction, creeds, fixity, openness, rigidly, rituals, spiritual life, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, The Current, thwart, thwarting