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«The mind, that ocean where each kind / Does straight its own resemblance find; / Yet it creates, transcending these, / Far other worlds, and other seas, / Annihilating all that's made / To a green thought in a green shade.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, annihilating, Other Worlds, resemblance, seas, sea green, shade, transcending, worlds
«Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance»
«Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many chances as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHIN»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Chance
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abolished, abolishing, as many, chances, failing, graded, grades, grade school, grading, Losers, resemblance, schools, slightest, winners
«Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike»
Author: Madame de Stael
| About:
Knowledge,
Wit
| Keywords:
alike, differ, differed, resemblance, seeing, wit
«Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Politics
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bears, close, come to, oldest, politics, profession, resemblance, Second Coming, supposed, The Second, The Second Coming
«There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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bearing, bear in mind, preventing, resemblance, Thing one
«They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bearer, bearers, frailer, pageant, pageants, resemblance, second class
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