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that is to say
«Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.»
«Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
accurate, efficient, that is to say, writers
«Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con»
«I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
in order, job, order, slave, slaving, that is to say, turned
«For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: / But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.»
«MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon --that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on --Judibras»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
barbarous, destitute, destitute of, elementary, monosyllabic, Saxon, testifying, that is to say, vapid
«I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among [those] in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
hundreds, last half, last resort, outlook, patients, religious, resort, resorted, resorting, second half, that is to say, The Last Resort, The Second, treated
«It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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contradiction, fervent, guilt, imposing, Movements, plausible, profession, that is to say
«He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
superlatively, that is to say
«It is difficult indeed to understand the ego in its depth and devious ways. It is an inert entity, that is to say, it cannot know itself not can it know others; It has no fear; it will not bend before others; it degrades man from the golden glory, which is his due, to the level of lowly dust.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
bend, devious, entity, inert, lowly, No Fear, that is to say
