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«To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Compliments
| Keywords:
ceremony, conferring, dispense with, mode
«We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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accidents, complexity, construction, constructions, evolutionary, expected, glorious, mode, unpredictable, yearn
«The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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indecent, mode, punishments, refined, smack, smacked, smacking, smacks, The Spiritual
«We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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absurdly, asceticism, available, cultivate, drip, dripped, forbearance, from time to time, mode, oil, overcoming, penance, sympathy
«To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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War
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abolish, abolishes, abolishing, advantageous, branches, establish, lucrative, mode, nations
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