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«In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.»
Author: Huston Smith
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emphasis
«In lieu of creativity, there is an undue emphasis on sexuality»
«In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom»
Author: Mary Ritter Beard
| About:
Achievement,
Being a Woman,
Civil rights,
History,
Possessions,
Women
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achievements, emphasis, martyrdom, possessions, quest, quest for, wrongs
«Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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accepting, artificial, by artificial means, emphasis, female body, imperatives, limitation, pattern, rhythm, rhythms, transcendentally
«It is human beings that we conflict with, so special emphasis should be placed on developing compassion for them.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
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emphasis
«I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.»
«Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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classical, Dead language, dispute, distribution, emphasis, quarrel, romantic, the Classical
«In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.»
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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apology, blot, blunders, connected, damning, emphasis, exacted, expiation, formal, humiliations, inadequacies, inadequacy, incidental, incidental to, memorials, poisonous, pound, soaked, stamps, strew, subtlest, vocation
«I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.»
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