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«Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.»
«So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations»
Author: John Tyler
(President)
| About:
Friendship,
Government,
Nations
| Keywords:
cultivated, good will, sedulously
«Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended a»
Author: John Herschel
| About:
Dancing
| Keywords:
associated, closely, cultivated, debaucheries, debauchery, recommended, riot, sakes
«I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.»
Author: Kathe Kollwitz
| About:
Talent
| Keywords:
cultivated, faithfully, grown, In Me, placed, twig, twigs
«Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of ''quaint,'' and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.»
«I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
| About:
Politicians,
War
| Keywords:
ago, all over, built up, capitalists, cultivated, destroyed, disfigure, disfigured, exception, Great War, grown, guilty, Just War, keen, keenest, long ago, Long War, murder, over again, People of, Politicians, rage, rages, revolt, revolted, revolts, risen, the Big, The War, undergoes, urge, waged, wars, World War I
«I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
cultivated, hysteria, pass over, singular, singulars, vertigo, warning, wing
«Let us teach that the honor of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities; in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusion of knowledge, in magnanimity and justice, in the virtues and blessings of peace.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
cultivated, diffusion, force field, intellectual development, moral force, other states, prosperous, submission
«I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
affirm, cultivated, equal to, hazardous, The Black, white man
«Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.»
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