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«Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree»
Author: Dean Acheson
(Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman)
| About:
Diplomacy,
Negotiation
| Keywords:
anxious, assumes, classic, disagree, negotiation, negotiations
«On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.»
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounds, antiquities, aspect, assumes, effects, Human Events, incident, incidents, soonest, The Incident, travelled
«The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumes, attractiveness, bees, briskly, butterfly, contribute, decode, decodes, derives, enact, enacted, enacting, flew, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, motives, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, stung, symmetry
«There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
assumes, blood relation, channel, clogged, clogging, disturbances, falsely, local, mystical, relation to, supernatural, unrelated
«The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
| Keywords:
allowed, assumes, Doctor Who, guilty, guilty conscience, heresies, Heretics, investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, leper, lepers, leprosy, recently, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, studies
«The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
associations, assumes, bail, bailing, bail out, Banks, bank loan, contented, discriminated, discriminating, economically, loans, middle class, savings, savings bank, wickedness
«'Rock' [music]. . . is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
| Keywords:
assumes, as it were, defenses, defense force, ecstasy, elemental, festivals, form of worship, in opposition, lighting, participant, participants, released, rhythm, rock music, shock, sink, so to speak, special effects, the participants, torn
«Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...»
«Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
assumes, demonstrated, inconsistent, natural law, natural laws, natural science, opposed, permanence, rests, uniformity
«There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts»
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