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«Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive»
Author: Leslie McIntyre
| About:
Being a Woman,
Women
| Keywords:
better-looking, geneticist, good-tempered, Good Looking, good temper, groom, groomed, grooming, grooms, manages, objects, Sculptor, sculptors, tempered, unaggressive
«Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
Conservatism,
Liberalism
| Keywords:
conservatism, distrust, liberalism, prudence, tempered
«ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cheat, Cheat The, conspiracy, oratory, stenography, tempered
«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)
| About:
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
«Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Enthusiasm
| Keywords:
earnestness, tempered
«Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
deception, nationalism, power hunger, self-deception, tempered
«Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
century, disciplined, foe, go forth, New American, passed, tempered, The New American, this century, torch
«Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
balanced, cake, characterized, hearted, ill-tempered, ill temper, last half, railing, railings, scold, scolded, scolding, selves, tempered, The Popular
«It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
allay, allayed, allaying, felicities, felicity, mixture, tempered
