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Letter "E" » enact
«Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
cinema, contrast, dramatic, dramatic art, enact, enacted, enacting, every night, individually, ritual, singly, theatre, The Theatre, transport, transports
«The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumes, attractiveness, bees, briskly, butterfly, contribute, decode, decodes, derives, enact, enacted, enacting, flew, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, motives, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, stung, symmetry
«As the youngsters grow attached to their teachers and classmates they can finally say good-bye to their mothers without re-enacting the death scene from Camille.»
Author: Sue Mittenthal
| Keywords:
attached, bye, enact, enacted, enacting, good-bye, scene, youngster, youngsters
«If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
at liberty, enact, enacted, enacting, Judges, legislature, positively, reject, subversive
«Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress»
Author: Wendell Phillips
(Abolitionist, Orator)
| About:
Newspapers
| Keywords:
enact, enacted, preached
«States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
enact, enacted, enacting, ending, inhumane, Laws, otherwise, particularly, practice of law, States
«Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
enact, enacted, enacting, Extreme Measures, indigence, measures, reduce, violating
«The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
assess, assessed, assesses, assessing, enact, enacted, enacting, lawbreaker, lawbreakers, tax, taxes, tax law
«One who lives righteously is known as righteous; one who commits sins is known as a sinner. You Yourself enact the entire play, O Creator.»
«Let me enjoy the earth no less / Because the all-enacting Might / That fashioned forth its loveliness / Had other aims than my delight.»
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