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«Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.»
Author: Edward Weston
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accurately, decisively, imagery, medium, prolific, sculpted, sculpting, slowed, suits, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, worker
«Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.»
Author: Hesketh Pearson
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accurately, misquotation, misquotations, Pride and, quotes, widely
«Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.»
Author: Joseph Pulitzer
(Editor, Publisher)
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above, above all, accurately, appreciate, briefly, clearly, guided, picturesquely
«If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.»
Author: Robert Quillen
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Genius
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accurately, call attention, chiefly, steadily, surveyed, till we
«Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.»
«In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
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accurately, appropriate, appropriated, appropriates, appropriating, cost, deal, flexible, flexibly, futures, high and low, low-cost, lower, lowered, lowering, lowers, plural, predict, predicting, Predicts, prepared, striving, various
«FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell.She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell.And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell.For all to whom the power's given To sway or to compel, Among themselves apportion Heaven And give her Hell. --Blary O'Gary»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
People
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absurdly, accurately, chickens, chicken out, count, hatched, hatches, hatching, wisely
«Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.»
«Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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accurately, demolish, demolished, demolishes, demolishing, High C, irresponsible
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