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«Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment»
«So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.»
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Philosopher)
| About:
Attention,
Caring,
Feelings,
Friendship,
Listening
| Keywords:
attentively, completely, conveyed, conveying, conveys, listening
«Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.»
«The idea that men are God's children is one which cannot be conveyed to the Trobriand Islanders, since they do not think that anybody is the child of any male»
«One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Opinions
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contradicts, conveyed, tone, uncongenial
«All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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apprehensible, conveyed, conveying, conveys, fictions, intelligible, in vain, Makers, multitude, prophesy, Prophets, sweetness, teachers, Teach In, tellers, The Makers, The Prophets, truths, vain
«Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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cockle, cockles, conveyed, excites, harmonious, jingle, jingles, jingling, punning, Puns, raises, The Animal
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