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«Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept»
Author: Carl Becker
| About:
Books,
Influence,
Men,
Speech
| Keywords:
clarified, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, generally accepted, influenced, notions, predisposed, suggest
«Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.»
Author: Lesley Hazelton
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Suffering
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accepted, edge, edge in, edging, generally, generally accepted, imagined, lessened, lessening, lessens, loses, manageable, Over the Edge, remains, suffering, terror, the Terror
«By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.»
Author: S. I. Hayakawa
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classification, classifications, convenience, conveniences, desired, for the time being, generally accepted, in short, in the United States, justifiable, Negro, regards, small white, suits, systems
«If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
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accepted, brave, bravery, definition, frightened, generally, generally accepted, intelligent, No Fear, quality
«It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
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Choice,
Love,
Romantic love
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accepted, as such, counter, countered, counters, expound, expounding, expounds, For some, generally accepted, inborn, romantic, romantic love, theory of
«It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
generally accepted, tanner, tanners, theologians
«One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.»
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