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«One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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«Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| About:
Chastity,
Sex
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aberration, aberrations, chastity, sexual, strangest
«When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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aberration, aberrations, arrangement, ballots, ballot box, boxes, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, one box, remarkably, revolt, shrewd, shrewdest
«The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, excellencies, likewise
«This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.»
«We are not troubled when something is good; only when it is bad. This is because goodness is natural. In our evil aberration, we are worried and alarmed when we slide into wrong or pain or sorrow. This is because Nature plans us to be right, to be happy and ever in a state of joy.»
Author: Atharva Veda
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aberrations
«In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, childish, directing, equilibrium, follies, inheriting, justifies, Left Behind, naively
«The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, amusements, hunting, mistreatment, public opinion, tolerate
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