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«The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.»
Author: Eugene Kennedy
| About:
Future,
Mystery
| Keywords:
aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacs, Benzedrine, commerce, destroying, embracing, verge
«When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.»
Author: Jackson Pollock
(Painter)
| Keywords:
acquaint, acquainted, acquainting, acquaints, comes out, come through, contact, destroying, etc., etc, give and take, mess, period, The Image
«The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Press
| Keywords:
attention span, destroying, mission, Mission of, span, The Mission
«The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Injustice,
Voting
| Keywords:
breaking, destroying, devised, devises, devising, imprison
«The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!»
«We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
destroying, effectively, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading
«The most life-destroying word of all is the word tomorrow»
«The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.»
«The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
destroying, health, preserve, The Body
«Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them»
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