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«Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener»
«Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.»
«Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.»
Author: Louis Aragon
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
black light, clash, clashes, intoxicating, in relation to, in terms of, mingled, opposites, presuppose, presupposes, pungent, relation to, The Clash, the zone, zone
«Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Angeles, blackout, bombardment, breaking off, California, catastrophic, distinguished, earthquake, horizontal, inferno, Kong, Pacific, presuppose, presupposes, sliding, the Pacific, towering, vertical
«It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Evil,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
according, arranges, free spirit, free state, lays, presuppose, presupposes, scope, spirits, wickedness
«All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.»
«A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Desire
| Keywords:
achieving, presuppose, presupposes
«Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
carry on, developments, human relationship, precisely, presuppose, presupposes
«Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.»
«Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.»
Author: Jacques Chirac
| About:
World
| Keywords:
presuppose, presupposes, proliferation, revival, revivals, safer
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