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«For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.»
Author: Claude Monet
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appearance, continually, does not exist, in its own right, landscape, own right, subjects, surrounding, True Value, vary
«Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.»
«For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Change,
Opinions
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consideration, experienced, fuller, fullers, instances, obliged, subjects
«A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
appearance, apprehensive, devotion, fearing, god-fearing, illegal, on the other hand, pious, put on, ruler, subjects, treatment, tyrant, uncommon
«Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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denunciation, effectively, eloquent, influenced, mentioning, point of view, practical, propagandist, propagandists, subjects, totalitarian
«If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
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despot, despotic, despots, helpless, ineffectual, maintains, subjects
«Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it.»
«An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Be Free, earthly, inequalities, inequality, kingdom, rulers, serf, serfs, subjects
«And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....I sum up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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answered, build on, coming together, feared, hardly, rests, safer, subjects, sum, sum up, The Question
«Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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admittedly, as a matter of fact, boot, conditioned, experimental, for that matter, heterosexual, heterosexuals, homo, homosexual, react, sexually, subjects, subject matter
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