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«A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
hue, its color, more or less
«A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Trine
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higher law, identity, more or less, oneness, pervade, pervaded, pervading, revealed
«In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women
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irresistible, mid, more or less, younger
«Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Ideas,
Play
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acting, humanize, humanized, humanizing, less than, more or less, Nothing More, playing
«Everyone is more or less mad on one point.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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more or less
«All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
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class, extreme, Extreme Measures, favor, invested, measures, more or less, New class, Noisier, noisiest, noisy, overrun, overrunning, overrun with, rash, rate, second class, second rate, Texas
«His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!»
«Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
enabling, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, human soul, more or less, myth, proposes, the help
«History is more or less bunk.»
«In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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accepted, at hand, govern, inevitable, materials, more or less, The Question, to advantage, turned, valid
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