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«We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it»
Author: Lawrence Durrell
| Keywords:
behavior, dictates, dictating, landscape, responsive, The Children
«Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| Keywords:
conform, conform to, constraint, constraints, dictates, instituted, instituting, The Passions
«The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, dictates, freed, liberated, opinion poll, Opinion polls, polled, Polling, polls, response, spaces, transparency
«What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes»
«The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
arrange, dictates, lights, medium, open to, perceive, radiate, radiated, radiates, radiating, role, The Author, transcend, unfathomable
«The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
administration, aims, appeals, bullets, characterized, commercial, dictates, diplomacy, humanitarian, idealistic, intercourse, legitimate, respond, sentiments, strategy, substituting, this policy
«To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Philosophy,
Simplicity,
Wisdom
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dictates
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