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«The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.»
«First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.»
«The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.»
«Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Books
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Borrowers, collections, creators, shelves, spoiler, spoilers, symmetry, The Spoiler
«A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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aesthetic, creators, divert, dramatic, enlighten, inform, mundane, Politics of, release
«What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
atmosphere, creators, desperate, Germany, Hitler, systems
«We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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bring to, creators, direct, direct action, engage, hidden, nonviolent, surface, tension, tensions
«Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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aversion, aversions, conformity, conspiracies, conspiracy, creators, customs, members, names, on request, realities, reliance, request, requested, self reliance
«Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
Aestheticism, contemporary, creators, homosexual, homosexuals, ironies, irony, Jewish, Jews, minorities, moral force, outstanding, Pioneering, pioneers, sensibilities, sensibility, seriousness, truest, Two Cultures, urban
«Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.»
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