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«What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
confront, core, cover, criminal, hypocrisy, hypocrite, perplexities, perplexity, plausible, radical, rotten, The Core, The Vice, this one
«Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
blameless, mounting, perfect game, plausible, portrayal, portrayals, recover, sports fan, The Power of Darkness
«The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.»
«The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing trade deficit. US ambitions to run the world, in other words, are heavily mortgaged. Like any debtor who borrows more year after year with no plausible way to reverse the trend, a nation sinking deeper into debt enters into an adverse power relationship with its creditors -- greater and greater dependency.»
Author: William Greider
| Keywords:
adverse, ambitions, borrows, creditor, creditors, debtor, deficit, Deficits, dependency, deteriorating, enters, financial, heavily, in other words, mainly, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgages, mortgaging, persistent, plausible, rapidly, reverse, sinking, the US, trade deficit, trend
«Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Reality
| Keywords:
approach, concrete, further, incredible, inevitably, perspective, plausible
«Plausible impossibilities should be preferred to unconvincing possibilities»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
impossibilities, plausible, preferred, unconvincing
«Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.»
«There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.»
«The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Country
| Keywords:
courtly, decorous, Germans, Good Natured, hearty, Italians, Italian A, offense, plausible, polite, reserved, Scotch, Spaniard, the French, The Italian
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