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«''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.»
«Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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palpable, popular opinion, subjects, The Whole Truth
«You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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blank, invent, in writing, obligation, palpable, prose, reads, reference, references, roughest, sheet, sheet of paper, trade, truer, with reference to
«Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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again and again, cities, demand, desert, intellectual, most populous, palpable, populous, resist, solitary, vast
«Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.»
«These contradictions are gross and palpable and demonstrate that the New Testament is not inspired, and that many of its statements must be false»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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demonstrate, false statement, palpable, statements, testament
«To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.»
«A hit, a very palpable hit.»
«Many are our joysIn youth, but oh! what happiness to liveWhen every hour brings palpable accessOf knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,And sorrow is not there!»
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