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«Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
conveniences, delicacies, delicacy, employed, food supply, improvement, liking, lodges, lodging, lodgings, necessities, niceties, nicety, procured, procures, procuring, supply, tastes
«When loving hearts are separated, it is not the one who is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor, who tastes the sting of death»
«There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
| Keywords:
appreciation, emotional, fulfill, hungers, nourishment, Peace of, peace of mind, realities, regardless, tastes
«We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness»
«Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.»
Author: Graham Greene
| Keywords:
Ave, Ave Maria, ceremony, common touch, dearest, domesticate, domesticated, drum, formal, hold dear, Marriages, marriage ceremony, opening ceremony, open letter, Saturday, stated, tastes, worshipped
«The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.»
«The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
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aptitudes, involve, moods, obliged, perpetuate, perpetuating, tastes, tends, tends to, The Pursuit of Happiness, undertake
«The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
evidently, preferring, slavish, suitable, tastes
«The more one feels hunger for other tastes and pleasures, the more this hunger persists.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
tastes
«The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptable, context, corrupting, ethical, tastes, The Hard
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