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«One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time»
Author: Idries Shah
| About:
Belief,
Tragedy
| Keywords:
illustrative, modern times, provocation, provocations, represents, tragedies
«I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
Almost always, craziest, represents, strangest
«Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
event, journalism, journalist, judging, moralist, reports, represents, unavoidable
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
beaten, Beethoven, classic, dwell on, ethereal, grandeur, Mozart, Olympus, peaks, purity, represents, romantic, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, Sinai, storms, The Romantic
«Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
intersect, intersected, intersecting, phenomena, remarkable, represents, significant, unique
«If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.»
Author: Jack Welch
| About:
Company,
Money
| Keywords:
a billion, a couple of, china, couple, Future of, investment, in China, represents, strategy
«I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.»
Author: Shirley MacLaine
| Keywords:
admired, come into, introduce, introduces, introducing, represents, sleeping
«Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough mani»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
as such, denominational, final result, incredibly, masses, orientation, political orientation, represents, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, tenacious, The Masses, thorough, upbringing
«Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
conspicuously, disgrace, meanness, represents, ugliness
«Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Temptation
| Keywords:
conquering, endured, fund, funding, Moral right, nobler, represents, trial, weathered
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