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«I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
considers, crumb, crumbs, menu, menus, picking, pickings, picking up, table, Table of, thrown
«So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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administration, affections, beating, belonging, considers, desirable, exchange, heart failure, hopeless, imprudence, indulgence, indulgences, kindest, owner, regulated, the Master, toil
«It occurs to her that he is attempting to let her win, an act she considers highly unnecessary since she is the stronger player. She does not appreciate his condescension. But two can play at this game, and she knows the female is infinitely more adept.»
Author: Luis Camara Silva
| Keywords:
adept, attempting, condescension, considers, highly, infinitely, occurs, player, unnecessary
«Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.»
«More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Respect
| Keywords:
art critic, considers, layman, laymen, performing, performing arts, valid
«Philosophy is the science which considers truth»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Philosophy,
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
considers
«If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
anxiety, concealment, considers, every quarter, fashion, goodwill, grateful, insofar, paralyzed, paralyzes, paralyzing, quarters, sets, three-quarter, timid, unfruitful
«It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
at fault, carry out, commander, commander in chief, Commander in Chief of, considers, defective, defectives, in-chief, insist, resignation, resignations, undertakes
«There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Feelings,
Thinking
| Keywords:
calculation, considers, incomprehensible, reckless, thoughtless
«It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
America and Americans,
Crime
| Keywords:
considers, Office supplies, organized crime, profitable, quite a, spends, supplies, takes in
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