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Letter "V" » vulgar
«You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.»
«True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Heroism
| Keywords:
brutal, firm, heroes, resolve, The Firm, vulgar
«The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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in his right mind, in their right minds, sign, vulgar
«The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.»
«The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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closeted, closets, come out of the closet, dislike, electric, electric light, prices, See of, the closet, vulgar, wages, water closet, water down
«Your mission is proving that a love for the earth, and for the things of the earth, is possible without materialism, a love without greed... I entreat you not to be turned by the call of vulgar strength, of stupendous size, by the spirit of storage,»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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Call of, entreat, entreating, entreats, greed, mission, proving, storage, stupendous, The Call, vulgar
«The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure»
«You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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assuming, begun, by and by, come on, commons, competencies, competency, flattering, gratified, House of, House of Commons, institutions, meddling, multitude, Prophecies, refined, sneered, sneering, sneers, spoil, the House of Commons, verified, verifies, verify, vulgar
«The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice»
«We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
fabrication, fanaticism, Gospels, groundwork, superstition, vulgar
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