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Letter "A" » at present
«If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, / then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| Keywords:
American politics, at present, blindness, candidate, Democratic Party, era, exhibit, lantern, lanterns, look to, New Era, quaint, Republican Party, slide, stand for, The Magic, tragic
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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answer, answers, at present, be given, books, Books not, distant, experiencing, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, given, give notice, gradually, language, letters, locked, locking, lock in, lock up, look for, noticing, Not now, patience, perhaps, poet, question, questions, remains, rooms, The Question, unsolved, written, written language
«I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring»
Author: William Archer
| Keywords:
anthropomorphic, at present, calamities, enduring, fallacies, fallacy, harmless, infirmity, noxious, suggest
«Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
academies, Academy A, at present, conception, discoveries, Europe, experiment, furnished, hence, instruments, rapid, rapids, sorry, The academy
«Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abused, affected, at present, cathartic, cathartics, dramatic, dramatic art, exercising, exhibition, hypnotic, rarest, The Practice, untouched
«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
at present, bird, decent, egg, egged, egging, eggs, egg on, fly, flying bird, go bad, go on, hard, harder, hatched, hatches, hatching, indefinitely, in ordinary, jollier, jolly, on sight, ordinary, present, remaining, sight, sighting, The Eggs, To Fly, turn, would-be
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
An electric, arrivals, at present, bald, bell, boots, chronically, circular, continuous, creditor, creditors, drill, drilling, electric, electric drill, eleven, frustrated, hangover, hangovers, income tax, interruption, interruptions, in red, losing streak, malnutrition, most recent, needless, pair, post, printed, rattle, recent, recently, ringing, schedule, spectacles, stairs, streak, streaked, streaks, telephone, telephone bell, The Arrival, thirty-five, Thirty two, up the stairs, varicose, veins
«At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
at present, credible, established, established religion, present, religion, Religions of the world, single
«If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Dignity,
Mankind,
Theory,
Truth
| Keywords:
Animal World, at present, Darwin, degrade, far left, in advance
«How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
at present, dated, era, New Era, perchance, unutterable, uttered
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