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«No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.»
Author: Benjamin Harrison
(President)
| Keywords:
enterprise, extent, look upon, magnificent, suggestion
«A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
| Keywords:
Better Than Life, marketable, nostalgia, repudiate, repudiated, repudiates, Repudiating, suggestion
«A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.»
Author: Edward Teller
| About:
Facts
| Keywords:
hypotheses, hypothesis, novel, statement, suggestion
«. . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.»
«Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
alarming, feminist, liberation, nasty, outcomes, point of view, predicted, suggestion
«I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
contribute, hint, hinted, hinting, hints, scene, suggestion, theater
«CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow --of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work --this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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arrow, babe, barbarous, bastard, comparing, conceptions, Cupid, deities, doorstep, doorsteps, eminently, grossly, homunculus, inappropriate, inflicted, introducing, materialize, materialized, materializes, materializing, mythology, no doubt, offensive, pudgy, reasonless, sexual love, so-called, suggestion, symbolize, symbolized, symbolizes, symbolizing, The So
«A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Advertising,
Emotion
| Keywords:
appeal, Appeal To Reason, emotionally, hypnoid, impress, intellectually, sector, submit, suggestion
«A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Discipline,
Society
| Keywords:
comparable, counteract, equilibrium, first moment, ordered, rudder, suggestion, well-ordered
«Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Adam, cannons, damnable, have died, horrible, instruments, invent, suggestion
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