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«Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue»
Author: Charles Simmons
| About:
Bigotry
| Keywords:
argument, bigotry, endeavors, intolerance, modern-day, modern, persecution, persecutions, silenced, sword, tongue
«Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.»
«It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it.»
«But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.»
«He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ancient, comprehensive, inwards, largest, looked, modern, naturally, needed, poets, Shakespeare, spectacles
«In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.»
«Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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Experience,
Poetry
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complain, consciences, examine, genuinely, modern, obscurities, obscurity, occasions, profoundly, shared
«A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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fornicate, fornicated, fornicates, modern, modern man, papers, sentence, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
Buddhism, modern, modern science, respond, science and religion
«A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Bureaucracies, bureaucracy, democracy, democratic, effectively, governed, highly, modern, necessarily, obedient, perfectly, prepared, prepares, scientific, trained, tyrant
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