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«To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.»
Author: Krzysztof Kieslowski
| About:
Love,
Work
| Keywords:
dilemmas, elements, ending, Happy ending, in opposition, opposition, The Elements
«I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
in opposition, opposition, role, spent
«There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.»
Author: John Galsworthy
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Politicians,
Power
| Keywords:
carry out, fellows, in opposition
«'Rock' [music]. . . is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
| Keywords:
assumes, as it were, defenses, defense force, ecstasy, elemental, festivals, form of worship, in opposition, lighting, participant, participants, released, rhythm, rock music, shock, sink, so to speak, special effects, the participants, torn
«Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as ''right'' in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as ''brute force.''»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, community, condemned, in common, in opposition, opposition, separate, set up, to the power
«The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself»
«Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use»
«When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.»
«(King) was one of those who tried what Wit could perform, in opposition to Learning, on a question which Learning alone could decide»
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