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«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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against, assert, asserted, asserts, commonplace, commonplaces, creatures, Dare to Be Different, daring, different, imaginative, impractical, integrity, in ordinary, ordinary, play, purpose, slaves, slaving, The Creatures, the play, vision
«I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.»
«Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.»
Author: Herbert Marcuse
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aggressive, asserted, asserts, audiences, automobile, autonomy, communicate, gun, handle, Mass, self-determination, tools
«The history of society, like the lives of men, is subject to ups and downs rendered easier to bear by dreams of a better future, as Marxist critics have vigorously asserted in their criticism of the traditional religions, overlooking the fact that Ma»
Author: Jacques Givet
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asserted, Marxist, Marxists, overlooking, rendered, The Downs, traditional, vigorously
«Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.»
«There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
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asserted, asserts, Chaos, cycle, cycles, cycle on, cycling, evening star, mistaking, motives, movement, seasons, stance, The Movement, The Seasons, turning
«My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment. . . . There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.»
Author: William E Bill Vaughan
(Writer)
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a.m., asserted, a couple of, bring up, butter-and-eggs, chicken feed, feeding, m, milking
«The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself»
«All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
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asserted, enlarging, incoherence, intricacies, intricacy, local, mythologies, poetic
«As regards the celebrated ''struggle for life,'' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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aspect, asserted, celebrated, distress, exception, power hunger, prodigality, regards
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