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«For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
individuals, Individual right, individual rights, interest, interests, precedence, private, private interest, public, public interest, rights, supersede, superseded, supersedes, The Public Interest
«ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead. --Jogo Tyree»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, detraction, detractions, exposed, sage, supersede, superseded, supersedes, The Warning, tooth
«Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
supersede, superseded, supersedes
«A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
muscular, supersede, superseded, supersedes
«I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
fashionable, supersede, superseded, supersedes, tables, young lady
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