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«No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.»
«prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
beer, denies, prohibition, prohibitions
«My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.»
«She will, and she will not - she grants, denies,-Consents, retracts, advances, and then flies»
«Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.»
«She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies»
Author: Lord Byron
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Beauty
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«POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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denies, Leader of, Leader of the, nihilist, nihilists, The school
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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Humor
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