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«All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter»
«The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Advertising,
Power,
Publicity
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, publicity, tumor
«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
abstraction, aggravation, aggravations, alternative, artifice, artifices, bustle, bustles, bustling, cities, concentration, congestion, deliberate, ecstasy, entertainment, holidays, intensification, levels, level best, look to, monotony, nearer, overcoming, plunge, pollution, Popular entertainment, pressure, sense an, stress, to the point
«If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.»
«Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.»
Author: Robert Byrne
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, dislike, expense, Learning to, saves, Save the Children
«Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, annoyed, complaint, consume, draught, draughts, extra, minor, soot, taciturnity
«I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, liquid, liquids, regular, vein, veins
«When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Laughter
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, happy hour, limbo, slink, slinking, slinks, The Comedian, yesteryear
«The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, injures, loaded, parent, severity, unjustifiable
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