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Letter "T" » The Popular
«I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?»
«One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.»
Author: James D. Watson
| Keywords:
conception, contrast, goodly, narrow-minded, newspapers, realizing, scientist, supported, The Popular
«Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.»
Author: Margaret Chase Smith
(Senator)
| Keywords:
cowardice, irresponsible, moral character, The Popular, the right way, unpopular
«If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.»
«Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.»
«Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Complexity,
Fame
| Keywords:
academic, complexity, equate, equated, popular culture, profundities, profundity, significance, The Popular
«I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth.»
Author: George Harrison
| About:
Music
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Good Stuff, nastier, nastiest, nasty, popular, popular music, The Popular, Weird
«OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advocacy, exponent, exponents, mule, splendor, The Mule, The Popular
«He had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.»
«Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
balanced, cake, characterized, hearted, ill-tempered, ill temper, last half, railing, railings, scold, scolded, scolding, selves, tempered, The Popular
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