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extravagant
«There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes --seize it, don't miss it.»
Author: Max Lucado
| Keywords:
affections, comes, extravagant, gestures, miss, pour, pour out, riskiest, risky, seize, seize on, seizing, The Time, when the time comes
«What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?»
«The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
exertions, extravagant, necessities, nonessential, passionate, priority, superfluities, superfluity, The Chief, Top Priority, traits, uniqueness, unlike
«What is wanted / whether this is admitted or not / is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
abolition, admitted, assumed, cheaply, costly, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, equitably, extravagant, hitherto, indicating, inimical, prodigal, remold, remolding, safely, There exist, tires, uniformly, weakening
«When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
deprives, destructive, extravagant, honorable, innocent, mouths, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, substance, usurer, violent, votes
«The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
consolation, extraordinary, extravagant, idler, idlers, refined, refines, refining, scandalous
