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Letter "F" » for the most part
«One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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aberration, aberrations, aversion, aversions, countenance, cruelly, excommunicate, excommunicated, excommunicating, faintly, for the most part, Human communication, inevitably, intercourse, in so far, isolation, partly, proclaimed, shut off, sign off, thoughtless, unwittingly
«The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.»
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
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Juries and Judges
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all too, for the most part, inaccurate, judicial, medium, reporting, superficial, the press
«The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.»
Author: Peter McWilliams
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Media
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Bad News, for the most part, Good News, media, news media, papers, ratings, sells, The News
«San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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city, for the most part, Francisco, inhabited, insane, remarkable, San, San Francisco, The San
«Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly, they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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accordingly, burglars, calculable, constitutionally, for the most part, genuinely, outlines, pirate, pirates, systems, timid
«I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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abroad, chambering, Chambers, companion, companionable, for the most part, Let Me Alone, lonely, solitude, stay, working
«Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Love
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accomplishment, for the most part, sexual, sexual desire, sexual love
«The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Atheism
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for the most part, hypothesis, impudent, misguide, misguided, origin, recourse, scholars, The Creation, the Origin
«The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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critical, debate, for the most part, grain, Grain of salt, manifestations, salt, taken with
«The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Ideas,
Success
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complacent, egotistic, erroneous, for the most part, spoils
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