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«Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.»
«Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute»
Author: Erich Heller
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Philosophy
| Keywords:
immense, impressive, inflicted, philosophical, rock bottom, seated, systems, throne, uncomfortably
«Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.»
«Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.»
«No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Oppression
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exorbitance, heavy, inflicted, lasting, legal, oppression, perversion, perversions
«It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.»
«Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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consciences, give notice, inflicted, reaches
«One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Injury inflicted on any being is sacrilege, self-injury.»
«I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.»
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