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«It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.»
Author: James Weldon Johnson
(Diplomat, Poet)
| Keywords:
blues, characteristics, derives, distinctive
«In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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conventional, copyright, disguised, distinctive, elaborately, element, patented, pretending, work of art
«If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, distinctive, egotism, egotist, egotists, worthless
«Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
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«The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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delirium, distinctive, excess, morphology, obese, opposed, redundancy
«There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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apiece, classes, Computers, distinctive, dollars, extra, personal, personal computer, personal computers, several
«The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.»
«We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
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«A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
distinctive, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, odorless, scent, stink
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