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«There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.»
«Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.»
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
| Keywords:
disturbed, flinch, flinching, general interest, preceded, precursor, precursors, uneasy
«Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.»
Author: M. F. K. Fisher
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
accompanied, dinners, ennui, indigestion, jitters, more often than not, nervous, ordeal, ordeals, preceded, psychosomatic, resentment
«The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.»
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
changed, ending, endings, End of time, preceded, preceding, story, timing
«Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.»
«The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American civilization, American Woman, canyons, generations, preceded, reminder, reminders, Southwest, whips
«If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: ''How do you want the world to be in fifty years?'' and ''What do you want your life to be like five years from now?'' the answers are quite often preceded by ''Provided there is still a world'' and ''Provided I am still alive.'' To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Fifty one, member, preceded, tempted, tick, ticking, ticks, utterly
«And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
breaking off, break off, constriction, deathly, hateful, mask, occasion, preceded, stillness, T, torn, unrelatedness, vacancies, vacancy
«Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.»
Author: Robert H. Schuller
(Author, Entrepreneur, Reformed Church Minister)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
achievement, preceded, preceding, preparation, spectacular, unspectacular
