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«In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.»
«Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
Wealth
| Keywords:
exact, exacted, exacting, exacts, increase, increases, proportion, wealth
«Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
exact, imposed, injustice, quietly, submit
«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
amount, blows, continue, endurance, exact, imposed, injustice, limits, oppress, prescribed, prescribes, resisted, submit, submitting, tyrants
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, descent, despise, exact, exaggeration, exaggerations, giggle, giggled, giggles, good enough, insistent, notion, sincerity, snivel, sniveling, The Victim, victim
«All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
approximation, dominated, dominated by, exact, exacted, exacting, exacts, idea, science
«At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.»
«But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Science
| Keywords:
exact, natural science, offers, repute, reputed, sciences
«Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.»
«Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
aspiration, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, exact, fulfill, grounds, innate, instinctive, Natural right, natural rights, sentient, sentient beings
