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Letter "T" » The General
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
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«For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers
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agent, farther, free agent, Free agents, general interest, limitation, notion, prescribes, The General
«Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Humanity,
Needs
| Keywords:
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«Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Action
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«As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
apt, consequence, directly, immediate, The General
«In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
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«Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
disloyalty, fetish, fetishes, idols, independence, loyalty, The General
«Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
disapproval, dreaded, The General, wolves
«Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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