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Letter "C" » cruder
«There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.»
«Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.»
Author: Ellen Glasgow
(Novelist)
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Literature,
Violence
| Keywords:
commands, crude, cruder, distorted
«Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.»
«In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
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crude, cruder, extinguish, overstatement, physicist, physicists, This is a, vulgarity
«As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life»
«There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.»
«But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.»
«Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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crude, cruder, For any, honorable, indifferent, name, no matter, persecution, persecutions, required, sect, sort, sort of
«Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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avoids, crude, cruder, Good Wives, harem, polygamy, requirement, so long, spiritual, variability, virtues
«It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.»
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