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«My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.»
Author: John Barth
| Keywords:
appeal, heartfelt, heartless, ineptitude, lovemaking, passionate, technique, virtuosity
«No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.»
«I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.»
«Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.»
«Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
appeal, concerning, due to, inculcate, inculcated, indecent, moralist, moralists, occur, physiological, pornography, sex appeal, tenth, tenths
«I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
appeal, caring, cherish, dislike, friendly, heartfelt, lasting
«Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible»
«Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Poverty
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appeal, covering, coverings, mask, obscures, tribulation, tribulations, veil
«Non-violence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.»
«I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.»
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