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«The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Movies
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, directly, endurance, film, filmed, length, related, related to
«The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.»
Author: Douglas Engelbart
(Inventor)
| About:
Maturity
| Keywords:
directly, directly proportional, embarrassment, embarrassments, mature, proportional, rate, The Embarrassment, tolerate
«The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.»
Author: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
(Ambassador, Senator)
| Keywords:
at best, directly, fundamental, III, indirectly, prevent, primary, superfluous, The United Nations, United Nations, world war
«There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.»
«Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.»
«Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.»
«Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
Charity,
Peace
| Keywords:
charity, directly, indirectly, in so far, notion, removes
«Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If a hermit acts out of bad motivation, he harms no one but himself. But if someone who can directly influence the whole of society acts with bad motivation, then a great number of people will be adversely affected.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
adversely, affected, Bad Religion, directly, Great Society, harms, hermit, hermits, motivation, Politicians, retreat, whole number
«There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fidelity,
Friendship,
Love,
Men
| Keywords:
brute, directly, fidelities, fidelity, frequent, gossamer, occasion, paltry, sacrificing, self-sacrificing, unselfish
«Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accord, apply, directly, dying, of their own, ordinary people, preparing, the right way
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