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«Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
barely, by no means, devised, disposition, distinctly, firmament, Great Depression, habitable, high sea, high temperature, high water, maximum, minimum, not long, nurturing, optimum, perpetuation, planet Earth, temperatures, the Great Depression, unfortunate, unhappiest, vitality
«I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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concluded, distinctly, general rule
«MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abbreviate, abbreviated, disagreeable, distinctly, escaped, indicate, miraculously, missis, mister, Mrs, mush, the market, unmarried, unmarried man, unmarried woman, venture
«HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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allopathy, Christian Science, distinctly, homoeopathy, Midway, school of medicine
«Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Love,
Passion
| Keywords:
ardently, clarity, distinctly
«I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.»
«I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Direction
| Keywords:
actual, aright, distinctly, fain, heedlessness, indifferent, Interior, liable, no doubt, symbolical, Take That, unconsciously, yield
«I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
aims, arises, distinctly, erect, erecting, erects, foundation, hut, mischief, sufficiently, The Foundation, tower, Towered, undertaken
«Her pure and eloquent blood / Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, / That one might almost say, her body thought.»
Author: John Donne
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cheeks, Cheek to Cheek, distinctly, eloquent, One Blood, spoke, wrought
«It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
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American, class, congress, Congress of, criminal, distinctly, facts, figures, no show, shown, The Criminals
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