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«Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.»
«A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.»
«In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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analysis, fails, in the last analysis, of his own, persists, responsible, responsible for, shifted, shifting, shifts, Somebody else
«Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows»
«one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Art
| Keywords:
crudities, crudity, desires, escape, escape from, everyday, everyday life, fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, longs, man of science, motives, objective, painful, perception, personal, Personal life, shifted, shifting, shifts, strongest, tempered
«Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, formation, invests, pension, pensions, shifting, trustee, trustees
«Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
centre, dwells, humanism, hypotheses, hypothesis, in point of fact, perspective, philosophic, shifting, theorem, theorems
«Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blinds, dispositions, drudge, drudges, foil, foiled, foils, indolent, keep out, literary, made use of, scenery, shifting, spectacles
