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«Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.»
Author: Albert Bandura
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
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«I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
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bland, businessman, incompetent, incompetents, naturally, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays
«He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance.»
«In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.»
Author: Kirsten Dunst
(Actress)
| About:
Movies
| Keywords:
actresses, Barrymore, Drew, Drew Barrymore, hopefully, pave, paving, portray, portrayed, portraying, symbols
«Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
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alcoholic, alcoholics, engaged, justify, outsider, outsiders, portray, portrayed, portraying, sympathetically
«It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that's good enough for me.»
«In regards to this great Book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the bestgift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world wascommunicated through this Book. But for it we could not know rightfrom wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here andhereafter, are found portrayed in it.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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bible, communicated, communicates, desirable, gave, Great Books, hereafter, most desirable, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, regards, savior, Say It, The Bible, welfare
«Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
art museums, curve, derive, doubtless, line of work, museums, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, sentiment, sources, stores, tips, touching, trace, unaided
«Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
portray, portrayed, portrays
«A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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old woman, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, ruined, sensitivity, viewer, viewers, young girl
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