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Letter "C" » cherished
«Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
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Ideas
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cherished, positively, vague
«Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.»
«Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.»
«Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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academic, academic freedom, aspect, cerebral, cherished, cover for, inadequacies, inadequacy, laziness, literary, literary criticism, specialization, terminal, terminals, The Terminal
«Let not your friend your cherished secrets hear; Then, if you quarrel, you've no cause to fear»
«It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom and the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherla»
«I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Poetry
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attracted, at length, cherished, poetic, predecessor
«Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.»
«One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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amuse, bestowed, cherished, consume, defy, economic system, encouraging, liberties, messages, mobility, unprecedented
«No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.»
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