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Letter "D" » disapproving
«Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
(Author, Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, worse
«It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.»
Author: Francis Maude
| Keywords:
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«Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn /the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.»
Author: Freya Stark
| Keywords:
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«I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
death, defend, disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, say, Say It
«A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Action
| Keywords:
approving, disapproves, disapproving, motives, reflecting
«The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Challenge,
Quarrels
| Keywords:
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«I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
disapproves, disapproving, hereditary, in place, proofs, ridicule
«I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
defend, disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, Say It
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