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«To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. Do you think that they set out for it to be that way? All actors set out for the same thing: to make both entertaining films and important films.»
Author: Alec Baldwin
(Actor)
| Keywords:
actors, compare, distinguished, enormous, entertaining, films, set out, snipe, Snipes, tremendous, Washington, Wesley
«There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
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University
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centers, distinguished, justification, universities
«On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Religion
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absolutely, abstractions, burning, comprehension, distinguished, dogmas, fighting, human mind, mankind, moral, moral principle, principles, quarreled, quarreling, Religions of the world, The Beginning, tortures, torturing, to this day, unintelligible
«POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
distinguished, equals, file, plus, reformers
«Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Excellence,
Perfection
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attribute, distinguished, imaginary, known as, The Critic
«PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancient Romans, An Ancient, distinguished, His country, patrician, plebeian, roman, saturate, saturated
«Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
accounts, and so forth, Body of, concerning, deities, distinguished, heroes, invents, mythologies, mythology, origin, primitive
«The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
astonished, brightest, distinguished, estimation, estimations, Great A, ornaments, skeptics, The Skeptic
«We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess»
«Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
achievements, distinguish, distinguished, jest, jesting, note, Real Character, sieges, small person, The Siege, vices
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