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«Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.»
Author: Adam Smith
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conveniences, delicacies, delicacy, employed, food supply, improvement, liking, lodges, lodging, lodgings, necessities, niceties, nicety, procured, procures, procuring, supply, tastes
«Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.»
Author: S. H. Miller
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Religion,
Success
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Bad Religion, ecclesiastical, essentially, incestuous, institutions, interested, niceties, nicety, prestige, such institutions, vanity, worse
«Like adequate education, freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness»
Author: Alvin Toffler
(Author)
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adequate, competitiveness, economic freedom, Freedom of expression, niceties, nicety, Political freedom, precondition
«It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.»
«A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, analysis, at first sight, commodity, niceties, nicety, subtleties, theological, trivial
«A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
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bizarre, fraught, greeting, greetings, implication, implications, innuendo, innuendoes, loaded, niceties, nicety, pervade, pervaded, pervades, pretense, pretenses, response, sensation, sterile, withdrawal
«The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety»
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