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Letter "P" » preying
«Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.»
«The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
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«Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.»
Author: Janet Malcolm
| Keywords:
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«There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.»
«Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.»
«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| Keywords:
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«Even a wolf will not stay - Where sounds no bleat to offer hope of prey»
«A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
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«Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
bargain, bargaining, beasts, biologically, considered, formidable, in the bargain, one species, prey, preyed, preying, preys, species, systematically, The Bargain
«The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his prey.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
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