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«Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dreadful, fiction writer, science fiction, Science fiction writers, unofficial
«Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.»
«It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
alleys, countryside, dreadful, lowest, smiling, vilest, Watson
«There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Doubt
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«Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.»
«Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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behold, carries, commands, dreadful, former, hardly, impression, inhuman, in history, latter, likes, mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, obeys, reflection
«There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
dealing, dreadful, flees, going under
«Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.»
«Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Poverty
| Keywords:
dreadful, propensity
«Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings;Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
delightful, dreadful, Marches, measures, meetings, merry, stern, sterner
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