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«Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.»
«Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.»
«There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it»
«There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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American history, celebrated, copy, dominates, duplication, European, full-scale, infrequently, in full, Philosophy of, preserved, scale, The European
«Our religion is itself profoundly sad -- a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language -- so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.»
«To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.»
«Our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young.»
«There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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celebrated, delighted, Groves, In a Grove, melody, rivulet, scarcely, The Whisper
«The learned world has always admitted the usefulness of critical disquisitions, yet he that attempts to show, however modestly, the failure of a celebrated writer, shall surely irritate his admirers, and incur the imputation of envy, captiousness, an»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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admitted, celebrated, imputation, incur, incurred, incurring, irritate, modestly
«Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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abroad, bird of, celebrated, dawning, fairy, nights, planets, saviour, The Bird, wherein, wholesome
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