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«The actual, long-term results of most big-government policies are opposite to the intended results.»
«The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Beauty,
Soul
| Keywords:
actual, bread, human soul
«The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Pain,
Passion,
Suffering
| Keywords:
actual, considerable, endured, For any, grieves, happen upon, indulges, suffers, willingly
«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
actual, amuses, amusing, awaken, density, equivalent, fiction, fiction writer, grasp, guise, offers, Real Genius, something else, The Works, unable, writers
«The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
actual, attends, doctor, doctored, Doctor Who, impending, inferior, mediocre, prevents, sickness, sicknesses, superior, The Sickness, treats
«Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.»
«The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
actual, counterfeit, counterfeiting, impromptu
«Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.»
«The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.»
«The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.»
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