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«Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
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«I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.»
Author: Anne Sullivan
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
built up, elaborate, elaborated, idiot, special education, supposition, suspect, systems, up on
«The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the downsides, I think.»
Author: Denise Richards
(Actress)
| About:
Science,
Technology
| Keywords:
downside, elaborate, elaborated, fans
«Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
comprehend, conversations, correspondence, Correspondences, elaborate, elaborated, pressure
«The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
communicate, communication, elaborate, elaborated, The Less
«If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
biological, bonds, by and large, ceremony, courtship, economically, elaborate, elaborated, evolved, go together, insemination, insertion, mammal, mammals, mate, mounting, one species, rely, rituals, scarcely, seconds, social function, sole, species, term
«If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
elaborate, elaborated, His country, superfluities, superfluity, tombstone, tombstones
«An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Ideas
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departure, departures, elaborate, elaborated, transformed
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