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«The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.»
Author: Clive James
(Critic)
| Keywords:
artistic, art critic, contemplating, critic, detach, detaching, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary work, specific, The Critic, work of art
«The national dish of Scotland is something called haggis, the specific ingredients of which I won't go into other than to say that if you can visualize boiled, inside-out road kill, you're pretty close.»
Author: David Grimes
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boiled, dish, go into, haggis, ingredients, inside out, road kill, Scotland, specific, The National, visualize, visualizing
«The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.»
«No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.»
«The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.»
«No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
appeared, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, crimes, Crime and Punishment, deterrence, emergence, for the first time, initial, initialed, initials, on the contrary, possessed, reappearance, specific, the commission
«There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.»
«The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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fairly, Federal, federal constitution, grant, President Grant, public interest, pursuance, reasonably, residuum, specific, thereof, The Federal, the President, The Public Interest, traced, undefined
«The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machine -- and the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machine -- the servant of man. . . . That is the revolution that is coming. . . . It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal.»
«Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.»
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