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Letter "S" » singulars
«It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
reproduce, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, singular, singulars, suffice
«To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Great Expectations, self respect, singular, singulars
«Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.»
«The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Humor,
Literature
| Keywords:
singular, singulars
«By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Almost always, anxious, aristocratic, astonish, by and large, characteristic, commoner, commoners, despised, details, erudition, exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, fecundity, formal, incorrect, in short order, large order, neglected, overburden, overburdened, regularities, regularity, rude, short order, singular, singulars, stir, The Order, untutored, variety, vigor
«I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
cultivated, hysteria, pass over, singular, singulars, vertigo, warning, wing
«Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| About:
Seduction
| Keywords:
commands, high-priced, seduction, seductions, Sex and, singular, singulars, sublime
«Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
carnal, continual, distinguished, exceeds, indefatigable, lust, singular, singulars, vehemence
«Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
graver, import, singulars, statements, Universals
«Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
crowns, deed, Queens, singular, singulars
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