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«The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape»
«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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«To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continually. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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an American, birthright, confirmation, confirmations, continually, continued, cram, crammed, cramming, crams, gratification, instant gratification, lavish, lavished, lavishing, more or less, sensual
«The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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clear, elements, entities, images, more or less, physical, role, serve, signs, sign language, spoken, spoken language, written language
«There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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hardly, more or less, nearly, one-sided, Other side, reaction, The other side, wins
«Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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connected, gambling, hoped-for, hoped, more or less, traveling
«The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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constantly, earlier, fossilized, more or less, productions, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers
«To be at all is to be religious more or less»
«The world is a gambling table so arranged that all who enter the casino must play and all must lose more or less heavily in the long run, though they win occasionally by the way»
Author: Samuel Butler
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World
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casino, casinos, gambling, more or less, The Casino
«There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.»
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