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«It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.»
Author: Shirley Chisholm
(Politician)
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«I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
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«I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.»
«Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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deform, deforms, distorting, distorts, fetter, fettered, fetters, fitting, fittings, harsh, harsher, ill, inevitably, in fetters, look upon
«It is because men are prone to be partial towards those they love, unjust to those they hate, servile to those above them, and either harsh or overindulgent to those below them in station, poverty or distress, that it is difficult to find anyone capa»
«Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.»
Author: John Updike
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bleach, bleached, bleaches, clarity, harsh, invigorate, invigorated, invigorates, invigorating
«How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns»
«It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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admits, critics, entertainingly, harsh, in the same breath, The New York
«It is a sin to hurt other's sentiments. No body likes a person who speaks harsh words. »
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