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Letter "D" » dissipating
«The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Mothers
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«My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that I have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Grief
| Keywords:
amusement, digested, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, divert, diverting, diverts
«To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
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«Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
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«Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dissipate, dissipating, ill-judged, outlay, outlays
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
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«The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Army
| Keywords:
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