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«There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks -- I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.»
«Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.'»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| About:
Education,
Prejudice,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
eradicate, eradicating, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, from the heart, loosen, loosened, loosening, loosens, prejudices, soil, weeds, well known
«When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
biology, complementary, criminals, linked, well known
«People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves»
Author: Julian Barnes
(Author, Critic)
| About:
Love,
People
| Keywords:
conceptual, Delusions, extreme, eye condition, thrilling, watering, well known
«This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| Keywords:
ingratitude, psychological, psychology, spoilt, traits, well known
«The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
excellencies, Excellency, well known
«There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.»
«Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality»
«The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.»
«Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.»
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