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«The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie»
Author: Edward Jenner
(Surgeon)
| About:
Joy
| Keywords:
calamities, destined, excessive, prospect, reverie, reveries, smallpox
«The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
atomic, atomic bomb, bomb, mountain pass, prospect, The atomic bomb, the Mountain, unendurable
«The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
Evil,
Religion
| Keywords:
dread, forcible, prospect
«Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.»
«Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
admirable, affectation, beneficence, clandestine, defect, home in, indicates, prospect, savoir-faire, underlies, usefulness
«The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
consequence, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, envision, envisioned, envisioning, heat, heroes, prospect, prospecting, The United Nations, United Nations, withdraw, withdrawing, withdraws
«The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
apothecaries, apothecary, fragrant, levity, prospect, repulsive, sweeten, sweetened, sweetens, tasting
«The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.»
«Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London.»
«Stands not within the prospect of belief.»
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