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«O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap / May who ne'er hung there.»
«The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it - to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it.»
«The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
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«Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a traveler?and novelists are often travelers?is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Writing
| Keywords:
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«Style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema»
«The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Leadership
| Keywords:
bravery, confidence man, History of, History of the, History of the world, rose, self confidence, sheer, sheerer, tenacity, The History, The History of
«The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Creativity,
Movies
| Keywords:
configuration, configurations, connections, sequence, sheer, speeding, structure, the movie, The Sequence
«Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and ve»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«The basis of optimism is sheer terror.»
«Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the screen is its best medium.»
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