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«The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.»
«Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
(Biographer, Educator, Mathematician, Writer)
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consuming, famine, feast, finality, imagines, impel, impelling, impels, nevertheless, uncritical
«Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Patriotism
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assessment, claims, eagerness, frank, implies, penitence, uncritical, unjust, unqualified, unwavering
«I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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buying, inquiring, literary critic, passably, sonnet, Sonnets, take in, uncritical
«In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.»
«To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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condemn, delightful, irrespective, occupations, prizing, spontaneous, uncritical
«We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.»
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