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Letter "C" » customary
«Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori»
Author: Howard Gardner
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Ability,
Children
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capture, categories, categorize, categorized, Category As, customary, cut across, differently, effectively, in parallel, in the same category, links, parallel, paralleled, realms, respond
«The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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alleviated, alleviates, appreciation, customary, decline, evidently, faculties, irritability, isolation, rarest, tact, The Decline, thoughtfulness
«I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
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customary, expedition, expeditions, fatigued, fatigues, fatiguing, The Goal, walking
«The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.»
«It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions»
«ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abasement, addressing, appropriate, customary, decent, employee, employer, peculiarly
«One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.»
«That getting along without false judgments would amount to getting along without life, negating life. To admit untruth as a necessary condition of life: this implies, to be sure, a perilous resistance against customary value-feelings.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
customary, implies, judgments, negate, negated, negating, perilous, resistance, to be sure, untruth, untruths, value judgment
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