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«Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?»
Author: Elizabeth Janeway
(Captain)
| Keywords:
connections, Human Relations, instincts, raises, social relations, uniquely
«Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.»
Author: Johan Huizinga
(Historian)
| About:
Play
| Keywords:
adaptive, some other, special act, subordinate, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating, uniquely
«Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.»
Author: Josephine Baker
| Keywords:
Born Free, breeds, brotherhood, dice, place of birth, skin color, The Skin, The Weight, tone, uniquely, weight
«We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| About:
Animals,
Earth,
Future
| Keywords:
Among the, Among the Living, die away, discontent, fearing, take in, unable, uniquely, worrying
«Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.»
Author: Paul de Man
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
ashes, flames, Left Behind, revealing, shaped, The Ashes, trace, uniquely
«Books are a uniquely portable magic»
«Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
| Keywords:
analyze, analyzed, history of art, in history, judgments, qualified, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, readers, relevant, stick, stick to, subject, uniquely
«Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Commitment,
Future
| Keywords:
extent, humanly, ordering, orderings, predictable, promises, reliable, uniquely
«Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
concepts, creations, determined, external, externals, free, freeing, freer, freest, Free World, however, human, human mind, may, mind, physical, physical world, seem, uniquely
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