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«I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development»
«The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.»
Author: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
| Keywords:
arrested development
«The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
addiction, arrested, arrested development, Marks
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
adolescence, arrest, arrested development, class feeling, cowardly, deduce, deduced, disappointments, dominate, Eton, glories, ruling, ruling class, school system, self-conscious, sentimental, theory of, The Ruling Class, undergone
«It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| Keywords:
Arab, arrested, arrested development, arresting, arrests, certainty, degradation, developing, fatalistic, Mohammed, outstanding, teachings, utter
«Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.»
Author: Andre Gide
| Keywords:
arrested development, arrests, butterfly, caterpillar, caterpillars, maxim, pernicious
«A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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aged, arrested, arrested development, cocoon, cocoons, continuing, convention, middle-aged, middle-aged man, muffle, muffled, muffling, on the contrary
«To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
arrest, arrested development, arresting, arrests, denial, denials, denial of, deny, development, experiences, less than, lips, regret
«Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
arrested, arrested development, intellectual development, preoccupation, Right or Wrong
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