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«Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
(Philanthropist)
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«Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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«Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Love
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«In oratory the will must predominate.»
«Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| About:
Life
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«In questions difficult or dangerous, it is indeed natural to repose upon authority, and, when fear happens to predominate, upon the authority of those whom we do not in general think wiser than ourselves»
«Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«Human values should predominate in men?s thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.»
«In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent or arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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arrogant, impertinent, predominate, predominates, predominating
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