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«Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it»
Author: Emily Hilburn Sell
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
characterize, characterizes, connects, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, Human nature, state of nature, strand, stranded, The Strand, unconditional
«If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.»
«The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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characterizes, construct, cultural, devote, exemplified, exemplify, exemplifying, femininity, infancy, trained
«High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
characterize, characterizes, exceptional, Forces of Evil, insignificant, marvelous, member, minority, minority group
«The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aiming, as far as possible, brought about, characterize, characterizes, Labor unions, manual, reside, resides, residing, socialism, Society of, The Manual, union
«An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.»
«That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing-the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Conflict
| Keywords:
characterizes, dash, ingenuity, readiness, typified, typify
«Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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characterize, characterized, characterizes, detail, extreme, pains, painstaking, thoroughness
«What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| Keywords:
characterizes
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