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Letter "D" » devices
«The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| Keywords:
bourgeois, devices, drawing, drawing room, entertainment, furniture, Grown up, instrument of torture, massive, par, par excellence, piano, The Piano, The Social
«The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
accusing, alcohol, aspirations, deliverance, devices, proneness, prospect, suppressing, unrealizable
«The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past»
Author: Norbert Wiener
| Keywords:
devices
«There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Automobiles,
Sex
| Keywords:
arousal, Benz, chief, Chiefs, convertible, devices, increase, Mercedes, Mercedes Benz, number, particularly, sexual, sexual arousal
«There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
Bridges, devices, imperfection, machinery, oblige, railway, railways, ugliness
«Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.»
«The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.»
«Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.»
«The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.»
«The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
aided, devices, power play, relatively, symbolically
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