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«There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
American Idol, coldest, idol, lucre, rapidly, The Americans
«Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.»
«Never be surprised at the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| Keywords:
crumble, crumbled, crumbles, crumbling, disclosure, disclosures, idol, skeleton, skeletons
«They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.»
«Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?»
Author: Barbra Streisand
(Actress, Producer, Singer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
idol, lifetimes
«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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«There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol»
«Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.»
«The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.»
«The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Heroism
| Keywords:
Hero of, idol, in turn, recollection, successor, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants
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