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«The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.»
«The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence,
Testing
| Keywords:
first rate, First test, intelligence test, in the mind, opposed, rate, retain, The test
«When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.»
«We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech»
Author: Susan Brownmiller
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
commercial, entertainment, female body, free speech, murdered, mutilate, mutilated, opposed, presentation, presentations, raped, stripped, unalterably
«The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
| About:
Skepticism
| Keywords:
asserts, doubts, investigates, investigating, opposed, researches, skeptic, skeptics, The Skeptic
«We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.»
«We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Religion
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inadequacies, inadequacy, on the side, opposed, religions, sermons, sublimity, wretched
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