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Letter "D" » disillusion
«One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
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«Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Advertising,
Age,
Disillusionment,
Life,
Living,
Perfection
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«Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.»
«?Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.?»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.»
Author: Charlie Chaplin
(Comedian, Composer, Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
disillusion, disillusioned, grew, remark, The Business
«Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials»
Author: Florence King
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
activist, activists, animal rights, compromising, credentials, disillusion, disillusioned, feminists, protecting, radical, The Wee, wee
«He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind.»
«Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist»
Author: W. R. Inge
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
disillusion, disillusioned, proves, sentimentalist, sentimentalists
«No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
acquirement, acquirements, article, article of faith, disillusion, disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating, increasing
«It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
disillusion, disillusioned, scenes
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