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«Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science»
«Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.»
Author: Janet Malcolm
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characteristic, expressing, fidelity, journalistic, qua, quotation, sine, sine qua non
«If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.»
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
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«By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Reading
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castles, Castles in The Air, castle in the air, characteristic, features, frustrated, in the air, shrewd, shrewdest, underlie, underlies, underlying
«He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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all ages, apostate, apostates, characteristic, deserted, malignity, peculiar
«And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
and the like, association, Association of, characteristic, The Association, the like, unjust
«A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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Charity
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benefactor, benefactors, characteristic, charity, fixed, hates, Human nature, receiving
«Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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characteristic, frequent, loud, manners
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