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«Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
aspiration, continual, demography, describe, locate, located, locates, locating, monograph, myth, nightmare, sociology, The Hard, urban
«Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups.»
Author: Peter Davies
| About:
Motivation
| Keywords:
continual, motivation, regular, sitting, The Brain
«If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Common sense,
Love,
Passion
| Keywords:
continual, occasional
«Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.»
Author: Theodore Parker
| Keywords:
arc, arcs, bends, calculate, continual, curve, curved, curving, divine right, mismanage, mismanaged, Moral right, pretend, progressive, Progressives, reaches, The Progressive, triumph
«He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence»
«Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
carnal, continual, distinguished, exceeds, indefatigable, lust, singular, singulars, vehemence
«Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
allure, continual, jollity, persuasion, tempt
«I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind»
«He that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.»
«From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
beginnings, continual, expected, extortion, governments, system
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