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unpleasant
«So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.»
Author: John O'Hara
| Keywords:
constipated, false teeth, franklin, Lincoln, Mussolini, nearsighted, Oscar, Oscar I, Oscar Wilde, syphilis, Tchaikovsky, unpleasant, Walt Whitman, Whitman, Wilde
«There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.»
«We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.»
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
(Actress)
| Keywords:
absolve, absolved, corrupt, fleeting, indulgence, indulgences, Leave No Trace, lively, look upon, loyal, trace, unpleasant
«The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
happening, identify, nowadays, particularly, tempted, totalitarian, unpleasant
«There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Events,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
events, No Place to Go, places, steps, unpleasant
«Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
anxious, coming, To Tell the Truth, unpleasant
«There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
compelled, compensated, compensates, details, forced, gained, rebels, sources, The Knowledge, unpleasant
«School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Common sense,
Day,
Schools
| Keywords:
brutal, common school, decency, human existence, ordinances, span, spanning, tasks, unhappiest, unintelligible, unpleasant, violations
«We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
alien, American people, American values, competitive, entrust, entrusting, entrusts, falsehood, foreign, market, Open market, philosophies, The American, unpleasant, values
«There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Memory,
Men
| Keywords:
expunge, expunged, gladly, in a way, unpleasant
