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«Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Relationships
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almost all, barter, bartering, barters, exploitation, goods, mutual, Parties, run out, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating
«Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Life
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biological, estimation, estimations, misadventure, shoulders, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating
«As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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ascendancy, renewing, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating
«An exhausted love is not necessarily dying. Give it a rest, do not terminate it.»
Author: Paul Carvel
(Editor, Writer)
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exhausted, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating
«And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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consequence, coveted, Epicurus, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating
«The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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assumes, epoch, epochs, formation, household, infancy, operates, privation, privations, revolutions, somewhat, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, way of life, wonted
«Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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add to, and so on, dip, dipping, dips, dip into, emerge, indefinitely, indifferent, meanwhile, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, Truth The
«A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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chess, chess player, confined, construct, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, trophies, trophy
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